On Thu, 24 Feb 2005, Stuart Johnston wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[snip..]
> >
> > How about (slightly easier to read)
> > body L_MILLBILL /[mb]i[l|][l|]ions?/i
> > or even
> > body L_MILLBILL /[mb]i[l|]{2}ions?/i
>
> I started with something similar to that but it will also match millions
> which we don't want.
>
> Stuart Johnston
Use negative lookahead to prevent matching on the unobfuscated
version:
body L_MILLBILL /\b(?!millions?)[mb]i[l|]{2}ions?/i
The '(?!pattern)' says do-NOT match on this pattern.
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