From: Xavier Noria <fxn@...>
Date: 2009-07-17T09:58:37+09:00
Subject: Re: regexp exclusion search - find matches NOT ending with a string?

On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 2:35 AM, BrendanC<brencam@gmail.com> wrote:

> I have the following text in a file:
>
> 1 a1.html
> 2 b.doc
> 3 c.xml
> 4 d.tiff
> 5 e.jpeg
> 6 f.html
> ....
>
> I need a regexp to match lines except those that end with ending in
> ".html"

The easiest path is to negate that it matches, say for instance:

   if filename !~ /\.html\z/
     # non-HTML here
   end

-- fxn