On Wed, Oct 05, 2011 at 07:52:18PM +0200, Lřseth Tor Rafsol wrote:
>
> On Oct 5, 2011, at 7:29 PM, Ronald J Kimball wrote:
>
> > If you think about it another way, you want to find words that are either
> > 1-5 characters long or 7+ characters long:
> >
> > ^(?:\w{1,5}|\w{7,})$
>
> Thank you for that one Ronald, it did the trick :)
>
> But are there really no other way to do it with a caret or assertion?
> Just to keep complexity/readability down. Not that this one qualified for
> that ;-)
>
Here's a way to do it with a negative-lookahead assertion:
^(?!\w{6}$)\w+$
By caret, I assume you mean a negated character class [^...]. A character
class always matches or rejects exactly one character, so it doesn't apply
here.
Ronald
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