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Re^3: Match something that does not matchby haukex (Archbishop) |
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Though it works, I still don't get it :-( The . matches anything (except newline), and (?!$pat) means "the next thing can't be $pat", so taken all together it really just means "match any number of characters, where none of these characters may be the first character of $pat".
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