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Re^2: Regex matching a string beginning with "root: " but not containing another string

by jryan (Vicar)
on Sep 09, 2004 at 20:08 UTC ( [id://389865]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re: Regex matching a string beginning with "root: " but not containing another string
in thread Regex matching a string beginning with "root: " but not containing another string

Here's a different way to do it. IMHO, the regex it produces will be much easier and make much more sense.

use strict; my $email = "myself\@domain.of-my.own"; my $string = "root: myself\@domain.of-my.own"; my $re = inv_str_seq($email); $string =~ /^root: $re/ and print 1; sub inv_str_seq { my($string) = @_; my @c = map { quotemeta($_) } split '', $string; my $re = "\n [^$c[0]] \n"; $re .= " | " . join('',@c[0..$_-1]) . " [^$c[$_]]\n" for (1 .. $#c); $re = qr/$re/x; return qr/$re+ (?:[^$c[0]]|$)/x; }

Update: Moved the quotemeta up.

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