Re^2: Can't match negated words.

First, You haven't duplicated Abigail-II's expression correctly; if you do so, it will work correctly:

  if ($line =~ /^(?:(?!throw).)*$/s) {
    debug ("Doesn't contain throw");
  }
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An alternative formulation, which I find slightly cleaner, is to recast it as a single negative lookahead:

  if ($line =~ /^(?!.*?throw)/) { ... }
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Re^3: Can't match negated words. by perlgags78 (Acolyte) on Jun 24, 2004 at 15:14 UTC
hi Hugo, I see that you've a ? before the throw. What function has this? Is the '?' associated with the .* or the throw? Also I'm having hassle getting return characters to appear in my posts so they kinda look like one line posts. Any ideas? Thanks, Mark.	[reply]