Works in 5.005

but who's still using 5.0 these days?

<sheepishly> Me. Some companies haven't upgraded.... </sheepishly>

use strict;
print 'Perl version is: ', $];
my @foo = qw/ fee fie fo fum big bag boz /;
foreach ( @foo ) {
   if ( $_ !~ /f/ ) { print "Matched: $_ !~ /f/ "  ; } 
   else { print "Failed: $_ !~ /f/ "  ; }
}


Output:
Perl version is: 5.00503
Failed: fee !~ /f/ 
Failed: fie !~ /f/ 
Failed: fo !~ /f/ 
Failed: fum !~ /f/ 
Matched: big !~ /f/ 
Matched: bag !~ /f/ 
Matched: boz !~ /f/

[download]

-------------------------------------
Nothing is too wonderful to be true
-- Michael Faraday

In reply to Re^3: negative regex without !~ by freddo411
in thread negative regex without !~ by mbr

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.