From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2008-07-20T20:44:16+09:00
Subject: Re: filtering email addresses

Hi --

On Sun, 20 Jul 2008, Luca Scaljery wrote:

> thnx, makes sense
>
> How do you, BTW, exlude matches ?
>
>  !str.scan(pattern) do
>     ...
>  end
>
> doesn't work. Also a regex like
>  /[^pattern]/
>
> doesn't work

str =~ /@/

It's absolutely not a robust way to check for an email address, but it
will check for an at-sign :-)

As for /[^pattern]/, that will match one character that is not a, e,
n, p, t, or r. For non-matching, try:

   str !~ /pattern/

or maybe negative assertions in the regex.


David

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