From: chaz2@thedoghousemail.com (Chaz)
Subject: Re: regexp and strings you don't want
Date: 26 Aug 2003 11:13:42 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6c185cf3.0308261013.644386e4@posting.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: A9u2b.399$mD.8@news.level3.com
Barry Margolin <barry.margolin@level3.com> wrote in message news:<A9u2b.399$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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-08-26 18:13 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
2003-08-26 18:13 ` Chaz [this message]
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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