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in reply to Negating Regexes: Tips, Tools, And Tricks Of The Trade

I suppose 
  my $regexp = /something_here/;
  do_stuff() unless $foo =~ $regexp;

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is cheating, eh? ;)

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Re^2: Negating Regexes: Tips, Tools, And Tricks Of The Trade
by imp (Priest) on Dec 07, 2006 at 14:51 UTC
    That approach is valid, but not appropriate for this context because the regex in question is being passed to WWW::Mechanize as follows: 
    $mech->find_all_links(text_regex => qr/download/i);

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