loke wrote:
On Sep 29, 11:03 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Lalli) wrote:
On Sep 28, 3:18 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Loke) wrote:
Hi. I am trying to filter strings which do not have :// in them, I am
able to find strings with :// but I want to do the exact opposite.
regex to match : /(.*:\/\/.*)/i
I tried /(.*(?!:\/\/).*)/i but it does not work.
if ($string !~ m{://}) { ... }
Paul Lalli
Paul:
Thanks for the help, but I think I have not put my problem correctly.
I want to match and replace only strings which do not have :// in
them.
/:\/\// or s/something/something else/;
That means I would need to use s/// and that is why I need to
negate the match itself.
Say you have the string 'one://two', your example /(.*(?!:\/\/).*)/
won't work because '(?!://)' *will* match 'one', 'ne:', 'e:/', '//t',
'/tw' or 'two'. You need to use a consistent unique pattern that will
anchor the '(?!://)' pattern.
John
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