in reply to Having a problem with negative look behind assertion

I would say only Athanasius has a correct answer yet, I see mistakes in the other answers. So I made sure and tested. This should work (and still uses only one regex):

if( $line =~ /^(?!fee).*[Bb]ar.*\.java/ )

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This is a negative look-ahead fixed at the start of the line (with ^).

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Re^2: Having a problem with negative look behind assertion
by SirClive (Scribe) on Feb 12, 2013 at 14:25 UTC
    I wanted a single regexp if possible and this looks like it does the trick. Many thanks for the replies !
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Re^2: Having a problem with negative look behind assertion
by Anonymous Monk on Feb 12, 2013 at 14:14 UTC

    I would say only Athanasius has a correct answer yet, I see mistakes in the other answers.

    obviously wrong

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      If you mean to say your fourth answer is correct I beg to differ. !/fee/ aborts for "fee" anywhere in the string instead of only at the start like the OP wanted

      UPDATE:

      If you mean to say your third answer is correct I beg to differ. It expects a '/' after "fee". While this is always the case in the examples it is not what the OP said (although there is a chance that the OP misstated the problem)

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        Gee, you say ^ is critical, is there an answer with ^, I wonder

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