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<font size=3>At 01:29 AM 6/26/2006, David Bluestein II wrote:<br>

<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">Okay I want to do the following

in this order:<br><br>

s~(/nexres/reservations/application[^&quot;])+~VALUE$1~g<br>

s~/nexres/reservations[^&quot;]+~VALUE2~g<br><br>

How do I construct REGEX #2 so that it doesn't match the result from

<br>

#1? I need something like:<br><br>

/nexres/reservations([^&quot;]+) where $1 is not like '/a.*'<br><br>

I know there is something like that, but don't remember the

syntax.</font></blockquote><br>

If you wanted a negative look-ahead ...<br><br>

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; while( &lt;DATA&gt; ) {<br>

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; chomp;<br>

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; printf &quot;Saw '%s'\n&quot;,

$_;<br>

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; if (

s~(/nexres/reservations/application[^&quot;]+)~/maybe1$1~g ) {<br>

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; printf

&quot;RE 1 matched\n&quot;;<br>

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; }<br>

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; if (

s~(/nexres/reservations(?!/application)[^&quot;]+)~/maybe2$1~g ) {<br>

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; printf

&quot;RE 2 matched\n&quot;;<br>

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; }<br>

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; printf &quot;Now '%s'\n&quot;,

$_;<br>

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; }<br>

__DATA__<br>

<a href="http://reservation.indo.com/nexres/reservations/application=foo" eudora="autourl">

http://reservation.indo.com/nexres/reservations/application=foo<br>

</a>

<a href="http://reservation.indo.com/nexres/reservations/input_dates.cgi?src=10011323" eudora="autourl">

http://reservation.indo.com/nexres/reservations/input_dates.cgi?src=10011323</a>

&quot;<br><br>

Outputs:<br>

Saw

'<a href="http://reservation.indo.com/nexres/reservations/application=foo" eudora="autourl">

http://reservation.indo.com/nexres/reservations/application=foo</a>'<br>

RE 1 matched<br>

Now

'<a href="http://reservation.indo.com/maybe1/nexres/reservations/application=foo" eudora="autourl">

http://reservation.indo.com/maybe1/nexres/reservations/application=foo</a>

'<br>

Saw

'<a href="http://reservation.indo.com/nexres/reservations/input_dates.cgi?src=10011323" eudora="autourl">

http://reservation.indo.com/nexres/reservations/input_dates.cgi?src=10011323</a>

&quot;'<br>

RE 2 matched<br>

Now

'http://reservation.indo.com/maybe2/nexres/reservations/input_dates.cgi?src=10011323&quot;<br>

<br>

g'nite<br><br>

<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite=""><font size=3>Thanks-<br><br>

David<br>

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David H. Bluestein II<br>

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Developer&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;

dbii@interaction.net<br>

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