RE: RE: Re: Regex grabs too much

That worked perfectly! Can you explain what

[^<>]
[download]

actually is doing? That seems to be the only difference between your code and mine, and it confuses me considerably.

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RE: RE: RE: Re: Regex grabs too much by Anonymous Monk on Jun 05, 2000 at 21:45 UTC
It means "not one of those two characters" viva el perl libre	[reply]
RE: RE: RE: Re: Regex grabs too much by mikfire (Deacon) on Jun 05, 2000 at 21:41 UTC
I am not an lhoward and I do not play one on TV, but I can explain that bit of regex. lhoward has defined a set, as indicated by the [ ]. When perl's regex engine sees this, anything within the brackets will be considered a match. However, lhoward was tricky and made the first character a ^. When the first character of set is a ^, it negates the set ( mathematicians call it the complement, but I can't spell 'complement' ) and tells the regex to match everything but what is in the set. `[^<>]` [download] is saying to match anything that isn't a < or a > HTH, mikfire	[reply] [d/l]