Re: regex help needed

Here's a two step approach to accomplish the task.

Change your if statement to be:

if ((/Exception/i) && !(/Exception Handler/i)) {
    print "FOUND : $_\n";
}
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Might not be elegant, but it gets the job done. If you prefer to use a singe regex, I'd probably go with what Eliya posted.

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Re^2: regex help needed by locked_user sundialsvc4 (Abbot) on Mar 28, 2011 at 19:30 UTC
And I’d go with what you did ... an `if` statement ... purely on “the next-time principle.” The one and only thing you can be sure of is change, so make the code as easy as possible to change next-time. A “clever” regex might be difficult to change – and soon enough a change ~~might well~~ will come along soon for which it is impossible. It’s really only a matter of time. Conditional logic, which does not place the full responsibility upon a single regex but merely obliges it “to get us into the right neighborhood,” will be much more forgiving of change in the long run.

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Re^2: regex help needed
by locked_user sundialsvc4 (Abbot) on Mar 28, 2011 at 19:30 UTC

And I’d go with what you did ... an if statement ... purely on “the next-time principle.” The one and only thing you can be sure of is change, so make the code as easy as possible to change next-time. A “clever” regex might be difficult to change – and soon enough a change ~~might well~~ will come along soon for which it is impossible. It’s really only a matter of time. Conditional logic, which does not place the full responsibility upon a single regex but merely obliges it “to get us into the right neighborhood,” will be much more forgiving of change in the long run.