Posted by Stefan Rybacki on 11/03/05 18:53

Steve wrote:
>>^content/([^/]+)/([^.]+)$
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>>I know the "^" means "not".
>>Doesn't this:
>>[^.]+
>>mean "not anything"????
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> In fact . in a regexp means any character except a newline (\n). Are
> there any other switches involved that might modify the default
> line-oriented behaviour?

In fact . in [ ] means . itself! so the regular expression above matches

content/ followed by any character but / then a / and then any character but .

Regards
Stefan

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