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Barry Margolin <barry.margolin@level3.com> wrote in message news:<A9u2b.399$mD.8@news.level3.com>...

> >For example, how can I search for a paragraph beginning with "The"
> >that does NOT include the word "top"?
> 
> This is something that regexps by themselves are pretty bad at.  

That's too bad.  I wouldn't have thought it so complicated to have
some function like [^"string"], or to list strings as options, maybe
["dog""cat""turtle"].  These would be quite handy.