RE: rcsinfo/loginfo exclude directories

[Bulgrien, Kevin]

You are confusing [^] with ^

^test-mode matches from the beginning of the line.  [^1234] matches
a character other than 1234.

http://www.regular-expressions.info/reference.html

I am not aware of a general purpose "not" for regular expressions.
As a rule, regular expressions try to match something, not "not
match" something.

Kevin R. Bulgrien
Product Engineer

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> -----Original Message-----
> 
> hi,
> how does one specify, in the common syntax, the exclusion of a file?
> For example, I want to apply a script called bugz.txt to ALL commits
> except modules listed at the bottom of rcsinfo.  i have this regular
> expression in rcsinfo that I thought tells cvs to apply 
> bugz.txt to all
> modules that DO NO contain the string 'test-module' but it doesn't
> work:
> 
> ^test-module /home/cvs/2.5/CVSROOT/bugz.txt
> 
> what is the correct syntax for "not"?  I thought the '^' character was
> proper regexese.