Re^4: maximum number of lines for negative lookahead assertion (?!)

$line is not catching anything; it is the string the match is being done on. The captures are not being used in this case; one would get the same results if the capture parentheses were replaced with (?:...)s.

the lowliest monk

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Re^5: maximum number of lines for negative lookahead assertion (?!) by johnnywang (Priest) on May 04, 2005 at 04:51 UTC
you're right. I should have read it more carefully, but I did stare at it for a long time, somehow in my mind $line was something else, oh well.	[reply]
Re^6: maximum number of lines for negative lookahead assertion (?!) by Anonymous Monk on May 04, 2005 at 11:16 UTC
The code is adapted from Chapter 10 of the book Beginning Perl for Bioinformatics (http://examples.oreilly.com/begperlbio/) and it parses the alignments in BLAST (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/BLAST/) results. Paul	[reply]