Re: Re: A NOT in regular expressions (and what else?)

There will be most likely be % and > in the resulting string but there won't be a %> together in the string

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Bruce

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Re^3: A NOT in regular expressions (and what else?) by tye (Sage) on May 14, 2003 at 07:54 UTC
Either solution will handle that. The simple solution will often not work if it is part of a larger regex. For example, `/<%(.?)%> home <%(.?)%>/ =~ "Go <% now %> to <% your %> home <% if %> you <% can %>" # ^^(^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^)^^^^^^^^^^(^^)^^` [download] will match as shown on that third line. Note that the first part matches too much. This is because a non-greedy part prefers to match sooner at the expense of being "more greedy" than to fail to match or to match later. - tye	[reply] [d/l]

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Re^3: A NOT in regular expressions (and what else?)
by tye (Sage) on May 14, 2003 at 07:54 UTC

Either solution will handle that.

The simple solution will often not work if it is part of a larger regex. For example,

    /<%(.*?)%> home <%(.*?)%>/ =~
    "Go <% now %> to <% your %> home <% if %> you <% can %>"
    #   ^^(^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^)^^^^^^^^^^(^^)^^
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