[Boston.pm] not regular expression

2011-03-23 Thread Greg London
I'm dealing with a perl gui tool that has a regular expression search tool. The tool takes whatever is in the gui window and then does a regularexpre ssion search through a bunch fo fields. THe thing is the text variable isn't within my control and the gui doesn't let me select ~= or !~. It's

Re: [Boston.pm] not regular expression

2011-03-23 Thread Ben Tilly
Try ^(?!.*pattern here) On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 1:14 PM, Greg London em...@greglondon.com wrote: I'm dealing with a perl gui tool that has a regular expression search tool. The tool takes whatever is in the gui window and then does a regularexpre ssion search through a bunch fo fields. THe