Bowie Bailey wrote:
> Kenneth Porter wrote:
>> Alternatively, is there regex syntax to match all patterns *except*
>> the one given? Can I somehow express "all geocities.com subdomains
>> except www and uk" as a regex?
> 
> That is a bit trickier because Perl does not currently support
> variable length look-behinds.  But you can get around that by using
> two separate look-behinds like this:
> 
>     /(?<!\bwww)(?<!\buk)\.geocities\.com/

In this specific case, this might suffice:
/[^wu][^wk]\.geocities\.com/i

... but this pattern does not generalize well.

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