On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, Birl wrote:
So by your definition, everything except @ should match until EOLN.
Sorry, that's not how regular expressions work.
When a regex includes a logical 'not', then the occurence of that symbol
invalidates the match, and so regex tries for a shorter string.
Mailing-List: list Arreat_Avengers(_at_)yahoogroups(_dot_)com
MATCH would be "Arreat_Avengersyahoogroups.com
No, MATCH would be "Arreat_Avengers
That is the longest string that it can find which satisfies the match
against a CONTIGUOUS string of chacaters that do NOT include '@'.
From your example above, it appears you are treating the 'not' condition
as 'ignore' or 'omit' and that is not what it does.
- charles
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