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Close, but that still matches PH-000 due to the .{0,4} clause. I think that 
/^PH(?:.{0,3}|.*(?![HI]-000).{5})$/

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does it. 
-sauoq
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Re: old Perl regex problem
by Abigail-II (Bishop) on Aug 05, 2002 at 10:01 UTC
    but that still matches PH-000
    That's because I wrote the regex before he revealed that the things could overlap. However, later he suggests that the file names are all pretty long, so PH-000 can't happen anyway.

    Abigail

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