From: "yermej@..." <yermej@...>
Date: 2007-06-29T06:45:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Help with regular expression

On Jun 28, 2:49 pm, "Axel Etzold" <AEtz...@gmx.de> wrote:
> I think what you want is what's called negative lookahead.
> I don't think it's available in Ruby's Regexps anyway,
> and resorting to Oniguruma isn't an option as you don't
> want to use Ruby anyway. Maybe you just break it down into
> more steps as here:
>
> http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/131694
>
> Or you look for negative lookahead here:
>
> http://www.regular-expressions.info/lookaround.html
>
> (provided the language you'll eventually use sports this feature
> at all).
>
> Best regards,
>
> Axel

Positive and negative lookahead work in Ruby Regexp. I guess that
doesn't help the original poster, but FYI and all.

Jeremy