in reply to Tell regex to stop at "phrase", instead of char - how?
See perlre
m/(?:(?!somephrase).)*/;
"A zero-width negative look-ahead assertion. For example /foo(?!bar)/ matches any occurrence of "foo" that isn't followed by "bar". Note however that look-ahead and look-behind are NOT the same thing. You cannot use this for look-behind."
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