@bruce @ronald: Noted!

good points both and Ill have to start using the forward lookup.

Good stuff, and Ill give it a go!

cheers.bo


On May 10, 2011, at 5:24 PM, Ronald J Kimball wrote:

> On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 04:55:25PM -0400, Robert Huttinger wrote:
>> I thought I had gotten it to ignore those words. so anything that looked
>> like
>> :link || :active etc ignore those lines.
> 
> Okay, you could do something like this:
> 
> #! /usr/bin/perl
> 
> use strict;
> use warnings;
> 
> while (<>){
>  s/^([-a-z ]+:)(?!link|visited|hover|active)\s*(.+)/sprintf("%-20s",$1) . 
> "$2"/ie;
>  print;
> }
> 
> (?!...) is a negative-lookahead assertion.  It makes sure the sub-pattern
> doesn't match at that point in the string, without consuming any of the
> string.
> 
> 
> However, if you can assume that a :selector will always be followed by a {
> on the same line, then this might be better:
> 
> while (<>){
>  s/^([-a-z ]+:)\s*([^\{]+)$/sprintf("%-20s",$1) . "$2"/ie;
>  print;
> }
> 
> 
> Ronald
> 
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