[ale] Yet another regex question

Christopher Fowler cfowler at outpostsentinel.com
Fri Aug 12 20:12:22 EDT 2005


On Fri, 2005-08-12 at 20:02 -0400, Jim Popovitch wrote:
> Just use this '^ABCDEF', the carrot '^' means beginning of line, the
> dollar sign '$' means end of line.

Yea I tested that but the regex processor does not seem to see lines?
The program that looks at the data was written in C and is using the
regex engine in libc.  

> 
> -Jim P.
> 
> On Fri, 2005-08-12 at 19:24 -0400, Christopher Fowler wrote:
> > I'm trying to create a regex that will catch only the string 'ABCDEF'
> > If the string is '% ABCDEF' I do not want the POSIX regex engine to
> > catch.  Is there a way I can create a regex that will ignore 'ABCDEF' if
> > it it preceeded with a '%\s'?  The \s is a space.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Chris
> > 
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