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Re: Misunderstanding negative look behind

by moritz (Cardinal)
on May 30, 2012 at 12:26 UTC ( [id://973276]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Misunderstanding negative look behind

You never show where exactly in a regex you insert your look-behind, so I can only get what you're doing wrong.

If you put it at the start of a regex, you need to a negative look-ahead, because the IP address is not yet matched. Example:

use strict; use warnings; use 5.010; my $localhost = qr/(?!10\.20\.11\.99\s)/; while (<DATA>) { next if /^\s*$/; next if /^\s*#.*$/; if (/^$localhost([a-fA-F0-9:\.]+)(\s+[a-zA-Z0-9\.-]+)+\s*$/) { say "IP: $1; HOST: $2"; } else { chomp; say "No match for '$_'"; } } __DATA__ 127.0.0.1 localhost 10.20.11.99 kvm-test-v06.example.com kvm-test-v06 # The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts ::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback fe00::0 ip6-localnet ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix ff02::1 ip6-allnodes ff02::2 ip6-allrouters # Spurious records 1.2.3.4 litter trash kvm-test-v06.example.com garbage 1.2.3.5 kvm-test-v06 more garbage 1.2.3.6 litter kvm-test-v06 1.2.4.7 kvm-test-v06.example.com kvm-test-v06

Produces the output:

IP: 127.0.0.1; HOST: localhost No match for '10.20.11.99 kvm-test-v06.example.com kvm-te +st-v06' IP: ::1; HOST: ip6-loopback IP: fe00::0; HOST: ip6-localnet IP: ff00::0; HOST: ip6-mcastprefix IP: ff02::1; HOST: ip6-allnodes IP: ff02::2; HOST: ip6-allrouters IP: 1.2.3.4; HOST: garbage IP: 1.2.3.5; HOST: garbage IP: 1.2.3.6; HOST: kvm-test-v06 IP: 1.2.4.7; HOST: kvm-test-v06

Note that this uses the negative look-ahead directly after the ^ anchor, so that the look-ahead never backtracks.

I would like to delete all those records which contain the host name (qualified or unqualified), but don't start with the right address of the machine

It is much easier to do such a check after you have parsed the line, and extracted host name and IP address.

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