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>>>>> "WM" == Walt Mankowski <waltman@netaxs.com> writes:
WM> On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 07:41:41PM -0500, MaD dUCK wrote:
>> how can i create a regexp which will match anystring of the form
>> "the xxxxxx is big"
>> unless xxxxxx is "house"
WM> In Perl you could say
WM> if (/the (.*) is big/ && $1 ne 'house')
I'm not sure if this is uglier or prettier, but it lets me show off
the negative look-ahead assertion operator which is cute.
if (/the (?!house).* is big/)
-kevin
--
Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to throwing a hissy fit, which gets
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