Ok, so I'm working on another node-grabbing routine. This time I want to parse my personal nodes to extract the titles of nodes I've added that are "original nodes". By original I mean not in reply to another node.

So I am testing using a local file and a loop that looks like this: 

while (<>) {
  my $node;
  $node = $1 if /^<TR bgcolor=.*>([^<]*)<\/a>/io;
  next if $node =~ /^re:/io;
  print "Found original: $node\n" if $node;
}

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This works just fine. However I am wondering, as I often do, is there Another Way To Do This?

Basically I need to match all titles that don't start with "RE:". According to page 230 of Mastering Regular Expressions, this concept is called lookbehind, and it also tells me I Can't Do That In Perl.

So I find myself wondering; WWCABD? (What would chromatic and btrott do? <g>)

In reply to lookbehind by httptech

Title:
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and:  <code> code here </code>
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