whoops... my bad. must have munged the regex myself somehow...

Pardon my conceit, as I don't mean to contradict this captivating regex, but I purport that its still not correct.... all of which happen to get incorrectly excluded for exclude('dog','cat','pig'): ;-P

(?-xism:^[^pcd]*(?:(?:p(?!ig)|c(?!at)|d(?!og)))*[^pcd]*$)
dog => 
cat => 
pig => 
owl => 1
conceit =>
contradict =>
captivating => 
purport =>
correct =>

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-Blake
p.s. List obtained using: 

$ perl -lne 'print if /^[dpc].*[dpc]/ && !/dog|cat|pig/' /usr/dict/wor
+ds

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In reply to Re: Re: Re: Word Exclusion Regex (was Re: regex problem) by blakem
in thread regex problem by Anonymous Monk

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