Re: regex negation without !~

Would

/^(?!FOO)/
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do what you want? From the perlre description, it looks like a negative lookahead is exactly what you're looking for (pun somewhat intended...)

Mike

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Re^2: regex negation without !~ by ikegami (Patriarch) on May 25, 2007 at 02:10 UTC
Just to be clear, that doesn't work if the original expression doesn't start with `^`. `>perl -le"print 'abc' !~ /b/ ?1:0" 0 >perl -le"print 'abc' =~ /^(?!b)/ ?1:0" 1 >perl -le"print 'abc' =~ /(?!b)/ ?1:0" 1` [download] That may not be an issue in this case.	[reply] [d/l] [select]