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Re: Regexp: Match anything except a certain word

by SamCG (Hermit)
on Apr 21, 2006 at 17:07 UTC ( #544948=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Regexp: Match anything except a certain word

Sounds like you want a negative look-ahead? Aren't those expressed something like $test=~/<a.+?(?!target).+?>/;?

Sort of guessing at the form, but I think that's what you're after...

update: this has a problem because of the .+.


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s''limp';@p=split '!','n!h!p!';s,m,s,;$s=y;$c=slice @p1;so brutally;d;$n=reverse;$c=$s**$#p;print(''.$c^chop($n))while($c/=$#p)>=1;

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Re^2: Regexp: Match anything except a certain word
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Apr 21, 2006 at 17:15 UTC

    That's not how you use the negative lookahead. It won't work. For example, 

    '<a href="..." target="...">' =~ /
   <a            # Matches '<a'.
   .+?           # Matches ' '.
   (?!target)    # Matches. (/\Gtarget/ doesn't match.)
   .+?           # Matches 'href="..." target="..."'.
   >             # Matches '>'.
/isx;

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    and 
    '<a target="..." href="...">' =~ /
   <a            # Matches '<a'.
   .+?           # Matches ' t'.
   (?!target)    # Matches. (/\Gtarget/ doesn't match.)
   .+?           # Matches 'arget="..." href="..."'.
   >             # Matches '>'.
/isx;

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    The common use of a negative lookahead is 

    /(?:(?!$re).)*/

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    See my earlier post for the fix.

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