Re: On zero-width negative lookahead assertions

there are two errors in the code:

You are searching the match and Perl find it for you looking through all possible combinations

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Re^2: On zero-width negative lookahead assertions by bronto (Priest) on Sep 10, 2004 at 14:21 UTC
@ and . must be backslashed Backslashed: still matches too much your \s* allows the regexp to match when \s* matches empty string I know it, I expressely want to match 0 or more spaces before line end Ciao! `--bronto` In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is.	[reply]
Re^3: On zero-width negative lookahead assertions by ccn (Vicar) on Sep 10, 2004 at 14:29 UTC
Note the difference: `perl -ne '/^root:(?!\s*admin\@somewhere\.here)/ and print' alliases`	[reply] [d/l]