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in reply to Having a problem with negative look behind assertion

You don't have fixed width of line, look behind or look ahead will only work on fixed width

use strict; use warnings; while(my $line = <DATA>) { chomp($line); if( $line =~ /(?<!fee\/src\/)(com\/)/ ) { print $line . "\n"; } } __DATA__ foo/src/com/ foo/src/com/ foo/src/com/ fee/src/com/