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Re: Regular exp negation was Perl expression

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Subject: Re: Regular exp negation was Perl expression
From: Deepak Joglekar <joglekar@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 14:46:02 +0530
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On Tue, 9 Jan 2001 14:03:06 +0530 (IST)
sreangsu acharyya <sreangsua@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 
> Is there any operator which negates a regular expression. I think "~" does
> it in perl, but I want to use it outside perl. Does POSIX define any such
> operator.

"^" is operator to negate. When used in start of exp. it is a anchor for compring from begining of the string.

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