Re: how to express $temp =~ s/.*?from://; in perl 4

Use a negated character class:

$temp = "notfrom:nowhere";
# Match zero or more non-f characters followed by "from:"
$temp =~ s/[^f]*from://;
print "$temp\n";
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Prints "nowhere".

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RE: Re: how to express $temp =~ s/.*?from://; in perl 4 by merlyn (Sage) on Jul 30, 2000 at 22:32 UTC
That's not the same as finding the nearest match: `$text = "fanny farmer from: big sky";` [download] There's no trivial way to say "a string of text that doesn't contain FROM" in Perl 4 regex. There are many wrong ways that people attempt. :) -- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker	[reply] [d/l]