sorry, I didn't fraze my question correctly.
example :
$line="abcxabcxxabcxxxabc";
how to match everything beofre "xxx" but not xxx itself?
the answer i got is to use lookaheads:
my $line = "abcxxabcxxxabc";
if ($line =~ m{(.*?(?:(?!xxx).))xxx}){
print "matched: $1\n";
}
else{
print "failed\n";
}
very cool,
thanx everyone
~i
On 10/13/06, John W. Krahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I.B. wrote:
> > Hi nice people,
>
> Hello,
>
> > how to specify using regular expressions: match everything but string
> (xxx)
> >
> > i would do this :
> >
> > $line =~ /[^(xxx)]+/;
> >
> > but, as it was mentioned before () inside character class is not
> working.
> > what is solution here?
>
> Perhaps you want:
>
> $line !~ /xxx/;
>
>
>
> John
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