From: Wes Gamble <weyus@...>
Date: 2006-03-29T04:30:26+09:00
Subject: Re: Regexp to match strings that _don't_ being with a string

Andrew,

That works fine.

In actuality, I do need the ability to pass one regex to do the job into 
another utility that will use it to operate on an array of strings.

So although !~ is cool, I really didn't want to have to iterate through 
the strings myself.

Thanks,
Wes

Andrew Johnson wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Mar 2006 03:43:51 +0900, Wes Gamble <weyus@att.net> wrote:
>> In my example, won't /^(?!xyz)/ also match
>> 
>> 29384723xyz02342
>> 
>> which is a little more than I want?
> 
> Uhm, maybe I've misunderstood (wouldn't be the first time) -- I thought 
> you
> wanted to match strings that did not begin with 'xyz' ... and as far as 
> I
> can tell, "29384723xyz02342" does not start with 'xyz'.
> 
>   while DATA.gets
>     print if ~/^(?!xyz)/
>   end
>   __END__
>   xyefoo
>   xyzpfoo
>   asdfsdf
>   1230xyzasdf
> 
> produces:
> 
>   xyefoo
>   asdfsdf
>   1230xyzasdf
> 
> 
> puzzled,
> andrew


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