Re: regular expression question

Karsten Nyblad <d148f3wg02@sneakemail.com>
10 Jun 2005 22:14:46 -0400

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From: Karsten Nyblad <d148f3wg02@sneakemail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 10 Jun 2005 22:14:46 -0400
Organization: Compilers Central
References: 05-06-045 05-06-054
Keywords: lex
Posted-Date: 10 Jun 2005 22:14:46 EDT

Nicola Musatti wrote:
> Gijs wrote:
>>So for example I want to have a RE that matches all strings except for
>>the string "hello". How do you do this?
>
>
> How about something like:
>
> . | .. | ... | .... | [^h][^e][^l][^l][^o] | ......*

Your RE fails to accept strings of length 5 were either first letter is
h or second letter e or third or fourth letter l or fifth letter o,
e.g., it fails to recognize "fails".

Karsten Nyblad

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