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I don't understand your question. Please give more context information about what to match or not match.
In Perl regex lingo \w+ matches a-zA-Z0-9_

Give an example of input data and what you expect to match.

Update: I looked back at this thread, but I have yet to see a clear problem statement.
Show an example of the "real world" data and what you expect to match from that.
Writing regex'es out of context just doesn't make any sense.

In reply to Re: Looking for a regular expression for the following pattern. by Marshall
in thread Looking for a regular expression for the following pattern. by skooma

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