Re: Re: stupid question about regexp

Yes, that's the solution. Is there no way without look-behind assertions? It seems like a common thing to do, 'not match' a expression of grouped letters (i.e. a word).

Thanks for your answer :)

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Re: stupid question about regexp - not matching a word by Abigail-II (Bishop) on Jul 16, 2002 at 11:52 UTC
Yes, there's the negative look-a-head assertion. ;-) `/^(?!abc)\w+ something/` [download] But why are you afraid of look-behind assertions. Asking for a solution to X without using Y, if Y is a reasonable way of solving X should have an explaination of why Y shouldn't be used. Abigail	[reply] [d/l]


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Re: Re: stupid question about regexp - not matching a word