Re: regexp and strings you don't want

[Kevin Rodgers]

Chaz wrote:

> Barry Margolin <barry.margolin@level3.com> wrote in message 
> news:<A9u2b.399$mD.8@news.level3.com>...
> > > For example, how can I search for a paragraph beginning with "The"
> > > that does NOT include the word "top"?
> > This is something that regexps by themselves are pretty bad at.  
>
> That's too bad.  I wouldn't have thought it so complicated to have
> some function like [^"string"], or to list strings as options, maybe
> ["dog""cat""turtle"].  These would be quite handy.


I don't think you understand the theory behind regular expressions, which are
based on regular languages and the finite state automata that recognize them.

But as Barry said, it's easy to write a function that does what you want.


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Kevin Rodgers