the best you can do is:

<?php
$a = "this has php  in the string";
if( ! ereg("php", $a ) )
{ print "a: not in string"; }
$a = "this has in the string";
if( ! ereg("php", $a ) )
{ print "b: not in string"; }
?>

-----Original Message-----
From: Ando Saabas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 9:33 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [PHP] regular expression for (NOT 'word')


how would i build a regular expression in php that would match
everything but the given word. For example, match the string only if
there isnt a word 'php' in the string.
I understand i can list characters i dont want to see in the string:
[^php].
but this means there cant be any p or h in the string. And ^(php) checks
if the string starts with 'php'.
How should i do it?


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