On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 11:40:08PM -0200, andrej hocevar wrote: > I've been playing around with these two REs in Perl with no > success. Can anyone tell me what's wrong?
Derrick has nailed it, I believe, so I won't go over that again. > which fails. Why is this? Is there no way of saying "neither/nor", > just "either/or"? Look into the "Extended Patterns" section of the perlre(1) man page. Specifically, you probably want either (?!pattern) or (?<!pattern). Beware that both of these are zero-width assertions, and, as such, can behave a little unexpectedly. See the "Backtracking" section of the same man page for the gory details. -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
