Re: regular expression question

On 10 Jun 2005 22:17:02 -0400, Skandinavisches Seminar wrote:


> "Gijs" <gvheurn@gmail.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
>> So I was hoping to easily invert a RE. But now I think I'll get a
>> rather complex RE, which I think the database field is too small
>> for. ;-) [...] if anyone has some other ideas, I'll really
>> appreciate this!
>
> I don't quite understand what the use is of matching everything except
> for a certain string.


It is not uncommon to match P1 terminated by P2. For example, an
argument of a function call is something terminated by comma,
)-bracket, ]-bracket etc. You don't want to match the terminator
itself, only the argument.


> As far as "other ideas" are concerned, my suggestion would be to
> consider whether using regular expressions is really the best way of
> getting what you want.


There are also more powerful classes of patterns than RE. They can
match "not P". For example:


http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de/match/match.htm


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Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de

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