Re: Excluding Words in RegEx

How do I achieve in a single regex?

Why?

if ($Line !~ /\bgroup\b/ && $Line =~ /^(\d{4}) ([^\.]+?[\.\!\?])$/)
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But it can be done.

if ($Line =~ /^(?!.*\bgroup\b)(\d{4}) ([^\.]+?[\.\!\?])$/)
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Re^2: Excluding Words in RegEx by ramprasad27 (Sexton) on Nov 06, 2011 at 07:02 UTC
should we need to escape . ? /^(?!.*\bgroup\b)(\d{4}) (^.+?.\!\?)$/ is good enough? \. and . does the same thing? any takers?	[reply]
Re^3: Excluding Words in RegEx by Lotus1 (Vicar) on Nov 06, 2011 at 16:04 UTC
Good point that within a character class '.' does not need to be escaped with a backslash. However, you need to use `<code></code>` tags around it in your post so the `[]` aren't rendered as links.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: Excluding Words in RegEx by ikegami (Patriarch) on Nov 07, 2011 at 04:35 UTC
I just copied the OP's pattern. But yeah, `/^(\d{4}) ([^\.]+?[\.\!\?])$/` [download] can be shortened to `/^(\d{4}) ([^.]+?[.!?])$/` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]