Re: how to express $temp =~ s/.*?from://; in perl 4

[Anonymous Monk]

Use a negated character class:

$temp = "notfrom:nowhere";
# Match zero or more non-f characters followed by "from:"
$temp =~ s/[^f]*from://;
print "$temp\n";

Prints "nowhere".

[merlyn]

That's not the same as finding the nearest match:

$text = "fanny farmer from: big sky";

There's no trivial way to say "a string of text that doesn't contain FROM" in Perl 4 regex. There are many wrong ways that people attempt. :)

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker