Re^2: regex grouping issue

i totally forgot about negative lookaheads...

that should cut down on a lot of my non-capturing parenthesis.

thanks for the tip!

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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]

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Re^3: regex grouping issue
by japhy (Canon) on Aug 31, 2006 at 20:28 UTC

characters

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