From: Summercool <Summercoolness@...>
Date: 2008-01-26T11:19:58+09:00
Subject: Re: regular expression negate a word (not character)

On Jan 25, 5:16 pm, Summercool <Summercooln...@gmail.com> wrote:
> somebody who is a regular expression guru... how do you negate a word
> and grep for all words that is
>
>   tire
>
> but not
>
>   snow tire
>
> or
>
>   snowtire

i could think of something like

  /[^s][^n][^o][^w]\s*tire/i

but what if it is not snow but some 20 character-word, then do we need
to do it 20 times to negate it?  any shorter way?