From: Barry Margolin <barry.margolin@level3.com>
Subject: Re: regexp and strings you don't want
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 20:17:36 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <A9u2b.399$mD.8@news.level3.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 6c185cf3.0308251145.6af55ffc@posting.google.com
In article <6c185cf3.0308251145.6af55ffc@posting.google.com>,
Chaz <chaz2@thedoghousemail.com> wrote:
>I know that ^ at the start of [ ] excludes individual characters (or
>ranges of characters) from a regular expression search, but is there
>an equivalent to eliminate strings? That is, how can I search for a
>regular expression that does not include a specified string?
>
>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. What you
should do is collect all the paragraphs that begin with "The", and then
search each of them for "top", and discard those from the list.
--
Barry Margolin, barry.margolin@level3.com
Level(3), Woburn, MA
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-08-25 20:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-08-25 19:45 regexp and strings you don't want Chaz
2003-08-25 20:17 ` Barry Margolin [this message]
2003-08-26 18:13 ` Chaz
2003-08-27 15:13 ` Kevin Rodgers
2003-08-29 15:50 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-08-26 22:19 ` Eric Pement
2003-08-27 20:26 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-08-29 16:14 ` Oliver Scholz
2003-08-29 18:50 ` Oliver Scholz
2003-08-29 19:58 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-08-29 20:38 ` Oliver Scholz
2003-08-30 14:50 ` Ilya Zakharevich
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