Re^2: sorry, didn't ask the right question about this regex yesterday (?!)

superdoc as Johnny used to say, "that is WILD and WACKY stuff!". I'm not sure how that works exactly but I'll try it in YAPE...

As Ed used to tell Johnny- "YOU ARE CORRECT SIR!"...

Thanks so much!

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I'm not sure how that works exactly...

From “Look-Around Assertions” in perlre#Extended-Patterns:

(?!pattern)
A zero-width negative look-ahead assertion. For example /foo(?!bar)/ matches any occurrence of "foo" that isn't followed by "bar".

If you have access to the Camel Book, see also Chapter 5: Pattern Matching, section “Fancy Patterns,” subsection “Lookaround Assertions.”

Hope that helps,