Posted by Rik Wasmus on 01/26/08 03:59

On Sat, 26 Jan 2008 04:30:19 +0100, Summercool <Summercoolness@gmail.com=
> =

wrote:

> somebody who is a regular expression guru... how do you negate a word
> and grep for all words that is
>
> tire
>
> but not
>
> snow tire
>
> or
>
> snowtire
>
> so for example, it will grep for
>
> winter tire
> tire
> retire
> tired
>
> but will not grep for
>
> snow tire
> snow tire
> some snowtires
>
> need to do it in one regular expression

Untested:

!pregmatch('/(?<=3Dsnow[^\w]*)tire/',$string)
-- =

Rik Wasmus

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