Re: Regexp: Match anything except a certain word

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Sounds like you want a negative look-ahead? Aren't those expressed something like $test=~/<a.+?(?!target).+?>/;?

Sort of guessing at the form, but I think that's what you're after...

update: this has a problem because of the .+.

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Re^2: Regexp: Match anything except a certain word
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Apr 21, 2006 at 13:15 UTC

That's not how you use the negative lookahead. It won't work. For example,

'<a href="..." target="...">' =~ /
   <a            # Matches '<a'.
   .+?           # Matches ' '.
   (?!target)    # Matches. (/\Gtarget/ doesn't match.)
   .+?           # Matches 'href="..." target="..."'.
   >             # Matches '>'.
/isx;
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'<a target="..." href="...">' =~ /
   <a            # Matches '<a'.
   .+?           # Matches ' t'.
   (?!target)    # Matches. (/\Gtarget/ doesn't match.)
   .+?           # Matches 'arget="..." href="..."'.
   >             # Matches '>'.
/isx;
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The common use of a negative lookahead is

/(?:(?!$re).)*/
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See my earlier post for the fix.

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