•Re: Regex matching a string beginning with "root: " but not containing another string

Do you mean something more complex than:

my $email = 'myself@domain.of-my.own';
if (/^root:(?!.*\Q$email\E)/) { ... }
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or am I missing something here?

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Re^2: Regex matching a string beginning with "root: " but not containing another string by ysth (Canon) on Sep 09, 2004 at 19:01 UTC
That would not work correctly given notmyself@domain.of-my.own.doing. You need to put whatever characters (or \z) delimit the email address around the \Q \E.	[reply]