[thelist] Reg Ex - everything except a phrase
Joshua Olson
joshua at waetech.com
Thu Sep 11 08:29:36 CDT 2003
----- Original Message -----
From: "Elankath, Tarun (Cognizant)" <ETarun at blr.cognizant.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 3:36 AM
> How about the piece of Python code below (which uses negative lookahead) ?
> r = re.compile(r"^(?:(?!\bFred\b).)*$")
> Will this work for all cases ?
Tarun,
Nice regex... very smooth thinking. However, it does match "Hello Fred" on
my test engine, and it should not. I believe that is because word
boundaries do not always match with end of line depending on what platform
your testing on?
Good work.
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Joshua Olson
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WAE Tech Inc.
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