Re: regexp and strings you don't want

[Barry Margolin]

In article <6c185cf3.0308251145.6af55ffc@posting.google.com>,
Chaz <chaz2@thedoghousemail.com> wrote:
>I know that ^ at the start of [ ] excludes individual characters (or
>ranges of characters) from a regular expression search, but is there
>an equivalent to eliminate strings?  That is, how can I search for a
>regular expression that does not include a specified string?
>
>For example, how can I search for a paragraph beginning with "The"
>that does NOT include the word "top"?

This is something that regexps by themselves are pretty bad at.  What you
should do is collect all the paragraphs that begin with "The", and then
search each of them for "top", and discard those from the list.

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