Re: Forcing a regex to fail (look, a head!)

I'm not sure I understood the whole node, but wouldn't it be easier to skip experimental regex features and just prepend (?![.]$) or (?![.](?!\d)) to (that part of) the regex ?

- tye

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Re^2: Forcing a regex to fail (look, a head!) by Ovid (Cardinal) on May 06, 2005 at 02:58 UTC
I don't follow. To what part of the regex? Cheers, Ovid New address of my CGI Course.	[reply]
Re^3: Forcing a regex to fail (look, a head!) by tye (Sage) on May 06, 2005 at 03:15 UTC
The part that must not match ".". - tye	[reply]