From: Tobias Reif <tobiasreif@...>
Date: 2002-04-11T01:31:39+09:00
Subject: regex: how to negate sequences?

Hi,

In
'-f-o>o-bar-->'
, I need to match the string before
-->
, which is
-f-o>o-bar
. How to?

irb(main):009:0> '-f-o>o-bar-->' =~ /[^-->]+/ ; puts $&
f
nil

I know why the above doesn't work, but I don't know how to negate a 
sequence of characters, instead of negating sets/collections.

Tobi

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