Re: Re: Help with Regular Expression matching

~~As our friend notes, you mean:~~

my ($match) = $string =~ /(<ab>|ab)/;
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Update: Ok, I didn't read the spec carefully enough, I think this will do it:
my ($match) = $string =~ /(?!<ab[^>]|[^<]ab>)<?(ab)>?/
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But I'd probably split it into two regexes.

I'm talking twaddle, anyone else want a go?

davis

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Re: Re: Re: Help with Regular Expression matching by Anonymous Monk on Feb 18, 2004 at 10:46 UTC
This is close, but I don't want to capture the surrounding brackets.	[reply]