Hi Monkeys,

I'm having problems working out how to perform the following regex. I want to match foobar:Xgonk where X is between 1 and 5 characters, and can be anything except 'gonk' (or the beginning of 'gonk') or '@'. I then want to remove gonk or @.

So...
foobar:hellogonk should give me foobar:hello
foobar:gonk shouldn't match
foobar:higonk should give me foobar:hi
foobar:helloworldgonk shouldn't match (gonk is too late)

Needless to say, the '@' isn't really a problem, but 'gonk' is giving me a real headache. Any ideas?

BTW this is only part of the regex, so

if(/whatever/ and $& !~ /gonk/)

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isn't really much help... and would have problems with the variable length anyway afaik.

Tom Melly, tom@tomandlu.co.uk

In reply to RegEx - match !foo followed by foo by Melly

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