Re^2: regex match word , don't match word preceeded by slash

Hi again kcott,

I tried so many combinations I can't remember why those spaces where there ! thank you again

I'm trying to undertand

(?<![-\w./])
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so the / is the one preceeding the word
but I don't get the -\w.
if someone has 2 minutes left :)

thank you too Anonymous Monk, I took a look at HTML::TreeBuilder but I wouldn't have found your solution in one afternoon ! ( is that english ? )

Have a nice day !

"There is only one good, namely knowledge, and only one evil, namely ignorance." Socrates

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Re^3: regex match word , don't match word preceeded by slash by kcott (Archbishop) on Nov 19, 2010 at 03:54 UTC
In the `href` part, if you just have the slash in the lookbehind, the regex engine finds that `gi-programming-with-perl.zip` is a match and you end up with: `/c<b>gi-programming-with-perl.zip</b>`. By saying not a slash or any other character I'm trying to match, `/cgi-programming-with-perl.zip` does not match at all; the content, however, has a greater-than in that position (which is neither a slash nor a character your looking for, i.e. `[-\w.]`) so it does match. In my second example, the whitespace doesn't match `[-\w./]`, so it works here also. -- Ken	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: regex match word , don't match word preceeded by slash by lepetitalbert (Abbot) on Nov 20, 2010 at 18:29 UTC
Thanks again :) "There is only one good, namely knowledge, and only one evil, namely ignorance." Socrates	[reply]