Hi I have a perl regexp question for something I've been struggling with.

Basically I have a file that I wish to match on a particular string

I want to be able to match on 'Servername SERVERNAME' ,where Servername is a constant string and SERVERNAME is variable.

So I want to match on

'Servername myserver'

OR

'Servername DBServer'

as valid examples

However I want to not match on the string if its a certain server name or a certain string comes before Servername.

So I DON'T want to match on the following in an 'IF' condition

'Context Servername DBServer'

Or

'Servername Context'

Any help is very much appreciated.

In reply to perl regexp question excluding strings by bobg2011

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