I believe there should be a "?" to match only up to the first thing that
looks like the end of the searched match:
/Blk[\. ]\d{3}.*?E\d{3}a?\d{4}/
- Lennart
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> From: Andrew Bastien [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: fredag, april 28, 2000 16:59
> To: Perl-Win32-Users Mailing List
> Subject: RE: How to say: match this..."UNTIL..." in RegExp
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> I'm not sure that I understand exactly what you're looking
> for, but does this do it?
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> /Blk[\. ]\d{3}.*E\d{3}a?\d{4}/
>
> - -----Original Message-----
> From: Jimmy S. Lim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: April 28, 2000 8:34
> To: Perl-Win32-Users Mailing List
> Cc: Peter Van Hoecke
> Subject: How to say: match this..."UNTIL..." in RegExp
>
>
> hi all!
> thanks in advance, can anybody help me translate english to perl? :o)
>
> i would like to write in perl language:
>
> if (m/Blk\.*\s*\d{3}.*(?!E\d{3}-*\d{4})/i)
>
> i want to tell Perl this in english:
> " find Blk followed by a period or a space, followed by 3
> digits, and followed by any character or characters along the
> way UNTIL (then stop) you find an E with 3 digits plus a - or
> w/o a - followed by 4 digits, then return the match.
>
> but i still get return of everything. Perl seems to ignore my
> ?! negative look ahead. is this because of the * i have? how
> do i solve this?
>
> jimmy
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