Re: regular expression question

"Nicola Musatti" <nicola.musatti@gmail.com>
9 Jun 2005 15:45:31 -0400

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From: "Nicola Musatti" <nicola.musatti@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 9 Jun 2005 15:45:31 -0400
Organization: http://groups.google.com
References: 05-06-045
Keywords: lex
Posted-Date: 09 Jun 2005 15:45:31 EDT

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] | ......*


i.e. accept all strings of length different from 5 and all strings of
length 5 that are not "hello" (I have to confess that I did read the
other messages in this thread :-).


Cheers,
Nicola Musatti

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