From: Rich Kilmer <rich@...>
Date: 2002-09-08T06:14:33+09:00
Subject: Regular expression question

As I don't have my copy of Mastering Regular Expressions at home, and
I'm not that good with them (yet :-) I question for the RegEx gurus:

if I want to match "dec" at the beginning of a string how would I do
that:

/\Adec/

matches on string "decimal" and "dec" basically I want 'dec' not
followed by [A-Za-z0-9_-] but anything else is ok (including 'dec' being
the entire string)

Thanks in advance

-rich