SPUG: Regex that matches everything except a specific string
Richard Anderson
richard at richard-anderson.org
Thu Nov 6 11:16:12 CST 2003
I am trying to feed a regular expression to a mail processing program that
matches every string except a specific string. For example, I want a regex
that does not match richard at richard-anderson.org but matches any other
string. If I were writing a Perl program, I would just do this:
if ($address !~ /^richard\@richard-anderson\.org$/) { print "Spam\n" }
but I am not able to modify the source code of the program I am using.
I haven't been able to do this using the complement metacharacter (^). I'd
accept a solution that matches anything except an anagram of
richard at richard-anderson.org
P.S. This is actually a Python regex, but Python's regexes are very similar
to Perl's regexes.
Richard Anderson
richard at richard-anderson.org
www.richard-anderson.org
Richard.Anderson at raycosoft.com
www.raycosoft.com
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