[ale] Yet another regex question

[Christopher Fowler]

I guess what I'm asking is if there is a way to catch 'XMI001' instead
of '%\sXMI001' without using the anchors


On Fri, 2005-08-12 at 20:12 -0400, Christopher Fowler wrote:
> 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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