match any character but

[Jon Slaughter]

Can I use any reg exp(mainly for mod rewrite) where I can match any
character but a fixed list?

I need to match a string that does not contain any /'s but I don't want to
have to use a character search string. (I don't see any need to have to
hardcode it)

that is,

..

matches any single charactr

and (.*) matches any string

what I want to do is use something like % that means

..%/

which means match any character but /.

Of course it would need to be valid and I know I can't make up semantics for
the reg ex. My point is is that, is that I don't want to have to use
[a-z0-9\-%&^$#@!etc...] to mean . but not /.

Surely there is a way to exclude a few characters from . without having to
increase the complexity of the expression 1000 fold?

If you don't get that, then a simple example would be that I have an
arbitrary string and I want to match only if that string does not contain an
a. Sure I can so something like
[bcdefghijklmnop qrstuv123456789 0!@#$%^&*()_+][';/.,<>?:"{}+-=~`............ ..............]
but surely reg exp has an easier way??? (again, this is specifically for mod
rewrite)


Thanks,
Jon

[Michael Fesser]

Re: match any character but

..oO(Jon Slaughter)

>Can I use any reg exp(mainly for mod rewrite) where I can match any
>character but a fixed list?

Use a character class with a leading ^ to negate it:

[^/]

Matches anything that is not a slash.

Micha

[Jon Slaughter]

Re: match any character but


"Michael Fesser" <netizen@gmx.de wrote in message
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.oO(Jon Slaughter)
>

>>Can I use any reg exp(mainly for mod rewrite) where I can match any
>>character but a fixed list?

>
Use a character class with a leading ^ to negate it:
>
[^/]
>
Matches anything that is not a slash.
>

Ok. Duh. wasn't putting 2 and 2 together. [^/] should match anything but a
slash. lol.

Thanks,
Jon