in reply to Re: Can't match negated words.
in thread Can't match negated words.
First, You haven't duplicated Abigail-II's expression correctly; if you do so, it will work correctly:
if ($line =~ /^(?:(?!throw).)*$/s) { debug ("Doesn't contain throw"); }
An alternative formulation, which I find slightly cleaner, is to recast it as a single negative lookahead:
if ($line =~ /^(?!.*?throw)/) { ... }
Hugo
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