From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2003-01-31T19:58:46+09:00
Subject: Re: How to do grep -v?

On Friday, January 31, 2003, 9:18:48 AM, nobu wrote:

> Hi,

> At Fri, 31 Jan 2003 06:49:15 +0900,
> Jim Freeze wrote:
>> > > > 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?

> Try <http://member.nifty.ne.jp/nokada/archive/reop.rb>.

RAA.search 'reop'  # => nil

Gavin