Re: regex grouping issue

Erm, [^(?:index\.cfm|browse)([\d\w]*)] doesn't mean what you think it means. You're conflating a complemented character class with negative lookahead; look in perlre for (?!).

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Re^2: regex grouping issue by nmerriweather (Friar) on Aug 31, 2006 at 19:21 UTC
i totally forgot about negative lookaheads... that should cut down on a lot of my non-capturing parenthesis. thanks for the tip!	[reply]
Re^3: regex grouping issue by japhy (Canon) on Aug 31, 2006 at 20:28 UTC
The primary problem is that a character class is for characters, not sequences of characters. You can't use a character class to match any of a group of strings, and you can't use a negated character class to NOT match any of a group of strings. Jeff `japhy` Pinyan, P.L., P.M., P.O.D, X.S.: Perl, regex, and `perl` hacker How can we ever be the sold short or the cheated, we who for every service have long ago been overpaid? ~~ Meister Eckhart	[reply]