From: dblack@...
Date: 2002-09-08T06:58:02+09:00
Subject: RE: Regular expression question

Hi --

On Sun, 8 Sep 2002, Rich Kilmer wrote:

> Actually I did not need the - so the /\Adec(?[\w])/ worked great.

In that case you don't need the [...], because \w creates an implicit
character class of its own.  (But you *do* need to restore the '!' :-)

  /\Adec(?!\w)/


David

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