Hi,
> On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, Arpi wrote:
>
> > rawbody ASCII_FORM_ENTRY /[^<][A-Za-z][A-Za-z]+.{1,15}?\s+_{30,}/
> >
> > could someone please explain what does [^<] matches ?
> > afaik ^ means beginning-of-line but it's strange in [] character array.
> > so, what does ^ mean there? begin-of-line or '^' character?
>
> ^ inside a character class ([]) doesn't mean "beginning of line", it means
> -not-.
>
> [^<] means "any character except '<'".
ah, thanks.
anyway, it explains why is this regexp so slow :(
it partially matches at every character position of text, and only at the
end (_{30,}) turns out that bad match...
A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team
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