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Usacomp2k3 · Sat Oct 22, 2005 1:44 am

Do you mean like a google search? Then it would just be "-fox" however, that's too easy, so I guess I don't understand the question.

gratuitous · Sat Oct 22, 2005 1:47 am

Usacomp2k3 · Sat Oct 22, 2005 1:51 am

Quite a bit over my head then. Good luck

Sat Oct 22, 2005 11:54 am

Probably do better in Developer's Den.

If you can call out to grep then do it as a "grep -v" that's probably the easiest way.

Sat Oct 22, 2005 12:11 pm

(.*?)dog(.*)

This you capture everything before "dog" and after "dog", essentialy giving you the same result. I presume you're using this inside some sort of program for text search/matching.

gratuitous · Sat Oct 22, 2005 5:25 pm

Sat Oct 22, 2005 5:55 pm

The given regular expression was meant to be used in some sort of program (it's a Perl-compatible regular expression, although this particular case is not Perl-specific).

If you're looking for a usenet post in some page, then I'm betting that page has some sort of specific form of regexp query, which is useless for us trying to guess what it is

What's the specific site?

gratuitous · Sat Oct 22, 2005 6:20 pm

Mon Oct 24, 2005 12:46 pm

Someone named Jeff on ICQ left this to me, so I thought I'd share it with you (maybe Jeff is the poster, I don't know

)

In answer to this thread that
you posted in:

viewtopic.php?t=34782

Here is the regex that solves the problem:

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000425.html

Could you post it in the thread?

Thanks,

Jeff

thegleek · Mon Oct 24, 2005 2:44 pm

cat filename.ext | grep -v yourwordgoeshere

gratuitous · Mon Oct 24, 2005 4:44 pm

JavaDog · Mon Oct 24, 2005 5:50 pm

Just code your own usenet reader...

Mon Oct 24, 2005 5:55 pm

Hmm, this is really looking like code jockey stuff, so off to The Developer's Den it goes.

Mon Oct 24, 2005 6:59 pm

Well, that's life

But yeah, you should use your own usenet reader instead of a third-party solution.

gratuitous · Mon Oct 24, 2005 7:09 pm

Mon Oct 24, 2005 8:28 pm

The perlish regexp would be:

$string="The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.";
$search="fox"
$string=~s/\s$search(\s)/$1/g;

If will search for the search term surrounded by a whitespace character and strip it out. The parens around the second whitespace save it and it is actually used as the replacement source. This keeps you from getting "brownjumped" by removing both whitespace elements. You should actually extend it to take into account it being the first in the sentance or being followed by punctuation or stuff.

--SS

jimveta · Thu Nov 17, 2005 2:41 am

the standard way of specifying a "word" regex is

\<fox\>

(it will match "fox" surrounded by spaces, punctuation, etc)
.. now all you need is a way to negate that which unfortunately isn't so standardized.. does the webform page you're using this in have a manual?

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