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•Re: Regex matching a string beginning with "root: " but not containing another string

by merlyn (Sage)
on Sep 09, 2004 at 16:22 UTC ( [id://389765]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Regex matching a string beginning with "root: " but not containing another string

Do you mean something more complex than: 
my $email = 'myself@domain.of-my.own';
if (/^root:(?!.*\Q$email\E)/) { ... }

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Re^2: Regex matching a string beginning with "root: " but not containing another string
by ysth (Canon) on Sep 09, 2004 at 19:01 UTC
    That would not work correctly given notmyself@domain.of-my.own.doing. You need to put whatever characters (or \z) delimit the email address around the \Q \E.
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