Re^2: On zero-width negative lookahead assertions

@ and . must be backslashed

Backslashed: still matches too much

your \s* allows the regexp to match when \s* matches empty string

I know it, I expressely want to match 0 or more spaces before line end

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Re^3: On zero-width negative lookahead assertions by ccn (Vicar) on Sep 10, 2004 at 14:29 UTC
Note the difference: `perl -ne '/^root:(?!\s*admin\@somewhere\.here)/ and print' alliases`	[reply] [d/l]