You can't "append" it per se. You can't just say you want part of a regexp to match and another part to fail for the thing to succeed. Regular expressions are meant to match something, not "not" match. There's a negative lookahead thing (?!pattern) but that wasn't meant for what you're trying to do. You need to design your regular expression to succeed, even if you intend to negate its results when you're done (like with unless or !~).

Perhaps if you give us a few lines of input and tell us what is supposed to match, and if so, what part of that string you expect your regexp to pull out, and we can try and point you in the right direction (or even write it).

In reply to RE: RE: Re: How do you match by Fastolfe
in thread How do you match by Limo

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