Is there a regular expression to indicate a string you're looking for and one you're not looking for?
Example: You want to find all the Smiths in a list but not Smith, John. So if you read each record from the list, the pseudo code would be something like: $phone_book_entry=~m/^Smith.+?not(John)/ $phone_book_entry=~m/^Smith, [^J][^o][^h][^n]/ works but can be cumbersome for long strings. Also if you don't know that ", " is always between the last and first name (Smith Jr., John) and use .*?, it breaks. Is there a real re that will do this? Thanks Mark Edwards HP Services Technical Solutions Group <http://www.hp.com/> Hewlett-Packard Company CXO01-3/N13 301 Rockrimmon Blvd. South Colorado Springs, CO 80919-2398 Voice: (719) 592-5363 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list Perl-Win32-Users@listserv.ActiveState.com To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
