From: Jim Freeze <jim@...>
Date: 2003-01-31T06:49:15+09:00
Subject: Re: How to do grep -v?

On Friday, 31 January 2003 at  5:29:27 +0900, Ian Macdonald wrote:
> On Fri 31 Jan 2003 at 05:22:16 +0900, Berger, Daniel wrote:
> 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Jim Freeze [mailto:jim@freeze.org] 
> > > Hi
> > > 
> > > Is there a more direct way than this to get 'grep -v'?
> > > 
> > >  c=%w{a b c}      #=> ["a", "b", "c"]
> > >  c -= c.grep(/a/) #=> ["b", "c"]
> >
> > c.grep(/[^a]/)

Doesn't work for 'a' being more than one character.
How does one do a negative regex match?

Jim

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