From: Sam Kong <sam.s.kong@...>
Date: 2005-03-24T18:09:50+09:00
Subject: Re: (Maybe) a simple question about regex

Thank you and other posters for the answers.
Actually s.scan(/(?!45)\d\d/) suffices my real problem.

What I was trying to solve was...
To extract url's from an html source which includes list of sites.
They are formatted like <a href="something.html">.
But I wanted to exclude <a href="index.html"> from the list.
So (?!index.html) will do.
Actually my toy case was not well-defined (I realized this later) and
thus it required more complex solutions like your second case -
s.scan(/(?!45|5)\d\d/) .

I think non-RE solution would be better like Mr. Robert Klemme said.
But I wanted to learn some RE.

Thanks.
Sam