On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 08:56:41AM +0300, Yakov Lerner wrote: > 3) The 'old' way. That's what I'd use before the \@ stuff to match > words not ending with 'ion': > > /\<\(\w*[^n]\|\w*[^o]n\|\w*[^i]on\)\>
Not much fun if you want to match all words not ending in "ification". :-) This is where negative lookahead and negative lookbehind really come into their own. -- Matthew Winn ([EMAIL PROTECTED])