Perl extended regexp problems...

Andrew Wilson andrew-dated-1001080663.700bdf at rivendale.net
Sun Sep 16 08:57:42 CDT 2001


On Sun, Sep 16, 2001 at 02:48:58PM +0100, Liyang Hu wrote:
> ----8<----
> 
> 4.6.8 Extended Regular Expressions
> 
> (?<!=...)
> 
>     A zero-width negative lookbehind assertion. For example,
>     /(?<!=bad)boy/ matches any occurrence of "boy" that doesn't
>     follow "bad". This only works for fixed-width lookbehind.
> 
> ----8<----
> 
> Grr... This is the last time I read the FM. -_-

Wrong FM perldoc perlre is your friend.

cheers

Andrew



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