From: Phrogz <phrogz@...>
Date: 2007-09-08T03:25:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Reg Ex

On Sep 6, 4:58 pm, Charles Pareto <chuckda...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm querying through the .com's looking for any www name with Cisco in
> it.
> I'm using a reg exp that is reading a file line by line obtained by
> Verisign that has all the domain names with a .com extension.
> Here is my reg exp:
>
> file.each { |line| print line if line =~ /(C|c)isco|CISCO/ }
>
> but I'm getting results like SanFrancisco and Francisco.
>
> Does anyone know how I can modify my reg exp to not include certain
> keywords like SanFrancisco and Francisco?

Instead of modifying the regex, how about simply working on the data
until it's right?

  ACCEPTABLE = [ /francisco/i, /scisco/i ]
  matches = file.readlines.select{ |line| line =~ /[Cc]isco|CISCO/ }
  ACCEPTABLE.each{ |re| matches.delete_if{ |line| line =~ re } }
  puts matches