hi, i'm trying to get all strings not containing <start|sidebar>. the problem now? i can't change logic <=~> to <!=> which would work perfectly. reading perldoc and other sources negativ lookahead should solve this problem as well. this one works perfectly

use strict;
use warnings;

my @vars = ('quit','quirly cat', 'cat queue','granit');

print ("any string 'qu' followed by 'it'\n");
foreach (@vars) {
    if ($_ =~ /qu(?=it)/) { print ("found <$_>\n"); }
    else { print ("no match for <$_>\n"); }
}

print ("\nany string 'qu' not followed by 'it'\n");
foreach (@vars) {
    if ($_ =~ /qu(?!it)/) { print ("found <$_>\n"); }
    else { print ("no match for <$_>\n"); }
}
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this one alreay show up some problems

use strict;
use warnings;

my @vars = ('and gugus for','gugus and', 'gurit for','granit');

print ("any string 'gu' followed by 'gu'\n");
foreach (@vars) {
    if ($_ =~ /gu(?=gu)/) { print ("found <$_>\n"); }
    else { print ("no match for <$_>\n"); }
}

print ("\nany string 'gu' not followed by 'gu'\n");
foreach (@vars) {
    if ($_ =~ /gu(?!gu)/) { print ("found <$_>\n"); }
    else { print ("no match for <$_>\n"); }
}
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question: why does <gugus> show found, when <gu> followed by <gu> should be suppressed? what did i not understand correctly?

finally my real problem:

use strict;
use warnings;

my @test = ("ananas", "de:mindset:rule1", "en:mindset:rule1", "wiki:we
+lcome", "
de:sidebar", "sidebar", "en:sidebar", "start", "de:start", "en:start")
+;
my ($cnt, $result);

print "start first loop <var !=> \n";
$cnt=0;
foreach (@test) {
    if ($_ !~ /(start|sidebar)/) {
        print "   >$_<\n";
        $cnt++;
    }
}
$result = ($cnt eq 4? ">> correct result" : ">> wrong result");
print "end first loop <$cnt> is $result\n\nstart second loop <negative
+ lookahea
d>\n";
$cnt=0;
foreach (@test) {
    if ($_ =~ /(?!start|sidebar)/) {
        print "   >$_<\n";
        $cnt++;
    }
}
$result = ($cnt eq 4? ">> correct result" : ">> wrong result");
print "end second loop <$cnt> is $result\n";
print ">>pgm ended\n";
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question: how is the correct notation for "find any string without start|sidebar" using negative lookahead?

thank you and

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