Re^3: reg ex NOT

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Aye, the construct I posted needs to be anchored (but not necessarily using ^ and $). It may be a waste to use that construct for single characters, but it's useful (necessary) for the use I described in my original post (i.e. To matche a sequence of characters that does not contain anything that matches a specified regexp). For example,

/<table>(?:(?!<\/table>).)*<\/table>/
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(Not the best example, cause tables can be nested in HTML and for other reasons, but you get the idea.)

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