Re^2: regex, use of lookaround for whole word filtering

No, it disallows following instances of "neither".

$ perl -E'say "a nor b neither" =~ /^(?!.*neither).*nor.*$/mi ?1:0'
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Re^3: regex, use of lookaround for whole word filtering by dasgar (Priest) on Aug 10, 2010 at 22:19 UTC
Nice catch. Didn't even test that kind of scenario. Took a few minutes after reading your post to realize why my suggested regex was incorrect. Another example of Perl doing what I told it to do instead of what I wanted it to do. :D	[reply]