From: David Alan Black <dblack@...>
Date: 2004-05-12T10:53:51+09:00
Subject: Re: Strange regexp behaviour in gsub

Hi --

Kristof Bastiaensen <kristof@vleeuwen.org> writes:

> I was thinking more about something like variable-width look-between :-)
> Meaning for example a(?^\w+)b would match any a(.*)b if (.*) is
> not equal to (\w+)

For that particular case you can use \W (opposite of \w):

  /a\W*b/  # a + zero or more non-\w + b

For more specific cases, you can use a negated character class:

  /a[^123]*b/ # a + [zero or more of NOT 1,2,3] + b


David

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David A. Black
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