SPUG: minimal unmatching regex
Michael R. Wolf
MichaelRWolf at att.net
Wed Aug 19 07:07:34 PDT 2009
On Aug 18, 2009, at 10:37 PM, Damian Conway wrote:
>> What's the smallest (comprehensible) regex that's guaranteed to
>> fail against
>> all input?
>
> /(?!)/
>
> "Look ahead and *don't* find...nothing".
> Oops! Too late. You already found nothing. ;-)
>
> Damian
Clever. I figured I could count on a former-professor to pass the
'always fail' test...
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Michael R. Wolf
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