Re: help about regexp

[Barry Margolin]

In article <fb2o13$spf$1@news.cn99.com>,
 sunway <sunwayforever@gmail.com> wrote:

> i want to use regexp to match .*\*$  but not match .*shell\*$
> how to write the regexp?

Regular expressions are very poor at finding non-matching strings.  It's 
possible, but very complex.  Usually it's easier to write your 
application so that it checks whether it's looking at .*shell\*$ and 
skip the line.

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