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D.J. wrote: > OK, I'm stumped. I need to create a regex that will match if anything > other than two terms I've specified exist. > > So for example, I have two terms I like, say "cat" and "dog". I want > the rule to match if a string contains anything other than cat or dog. > > I tried ... > > $value !~ /cat|dog/ > > ...but this had the unintended consequence of still matching a string > like "cat dog bird" or "cat bird" since the string does contain one of > my two terms. So what do I need to do? Thanks in advance! > > - D.J. D.J., you're probably best off using META rules for this. So you could have something like (completely untested and off the top of my head in the middle of the night): body __CAT /cat/ body __DOG /dog/ meta NOT_CAT_AND_DOG (!__CAT && !__DOG) you should definitely check the man pages and/or wiki about writing rules to do this properly, but that should get you started. Alan -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFE7dfoE2gsBSKjZHQRAozpAKC+edJGc52qWz1qguOQReCLUy3z9ACgzFpn V20guvwnlLaKHy3Aiy8FLQs= =eGwC -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
