From: Rich Kilmer <rich@...>
Date: 2002-09-08T06:19:14+09:00
Subject: RE: Regular expression question

sorry for answering my own question...just found

/\Adec(?![a-zA-Z0-9_])/

-rich

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rich Kilmer [mailto:rich@infoether.com] 
> Sent: Saturday, September 07, 2002 5:15 PM
> To: ruby-talk ML
> 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
> 
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