> I flunked the IQ test so I need some help. I want to match
> all domains
> in the body that are not in .com,.org.us,.edu,.gov and .mil.
> But there's
> more. I need to match some characters at the end of the URI that can
> often be found there such as >.?)*!"';
>
> The rule would match http://www.go.za and http://www.go.za), but not
> match http://www.go.com
>
> Here's my regex that does not work...
>
> m{https?://[^\s/:"')!?>*]+(?<!\.com)(?<!\.net)(?<!\.org)(?<!\.
> gov)(?<!\.us)(?<!\.edu)(?<!\.mil)(?:"|'|:|\?|!|>|\*|\)|$)}
>
>
> It works for all of the characters except for an ending "." such as
> http://www.go.com.
>
> I have grappled with this for some time and read the pcrepattern.txt
> accompanying Exim source, but damn if I can get it to work.
> Anybody want to spit out the answer?
I'm no regex expert, but your ending (?:"|'|:|\?|!|>|\*|\)|$) doesn't
list a ., so it wouldn't catch it.
Maybe
(?:"|'|:|\?|!|>|\*|\)|$|\.)
Would be better?
Bret
