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Re^2: On zero-width negative lookahead assertions

by bronto (Priest)
on Sep 10, 2004 at 14:21 UTC ( [id://390081]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re: On zero-width negative lookahead assertions
in thread On zero-width negative lookahead assertions

@ and . must be backslashed

Backslashed: still matches too much

your \s* allows the regexp to match when \s* matches empty string

I know it, I expressely want to match 0 or more spaces before line end

Ciao!
--bronto


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Re^3: On zero-width negative lookahead assertions
by ccn (Vicar) on Sep 10, 2004 at 14:29 UTC

    Note the difference: perl -ne '/^root:(?!\s*admin\@somewhere\.here)/ and print' alliases

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