From: Alexander Kellett <ruby-lists@...>
Date: 2004-01-11T08:23:11+09:00
Subject: Re: regex to NOT match?

On Saturday 10 January 2004 23:46, GGarramuno wrote:
> What you want is this:
>
> myString.gsub(/[^at\.]/, '')

\ is unneeded in char class afaik

> The brackets create a character class, and the ^ is the negative of...
> If you wanted to deal with full words, instead of single characters, you
> would have to use the (?!word|word) construct.

just fyi 
useful ruby specific docs are found by
googling for "ruby quickref"

:)

Alex

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