On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 14:39, Yossi Itzkovich <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > I need to catch a text between, for example, the word "myWord" and a word > which is not "myWord". > I can do it like : m~\bmyWord\b(.+?)\b[^m][^y][^W][^o][^r][^d]\b~ but I > guess there is a much better alternative. > > Thanks in advance
I am not sure that i completely understood what you want to accomplish. Can you send some examples of string that should and should not match? In any case, it sounds like you're searching for Look-Around Assertions, which i use very often. Take a look at: http://perldoc.perl.org/perlre.html#Look-Around-Assertions -- אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי Amir Elisha Aharoni http://aharoni.wordpress.com "We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace." - T. Moore _______________________________________________ Perl mailing list [email protected] http://mail.perl.org.il/mailman/listinfo/perl
