From: William James <w_a_x_man@...>
Date: 2005-10-26T18:37:03+09:00
Subject: Re: regular expressions galore


Dirk Meijer wrote:
> it's still not working for me :-(
> !~ doesn't work anyway, because it only returns true or false, when i need
> $& to be set.
> i think this one is proper: /^:?[\w\/'"$@#]+/
> but what would be the opposite of that?

%r{ ^ : ? [ / ' " # $ @ ] + }x

and

%r{ ^ (?! : ) [^ / ' " # $ @ ] + }x