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I can't find this in the FAQ, but I thought it was. If I have a range of
characters, like [a-zA-Z], how can I specify that I want to match any
character NOT in that range? (Yes, I know this is close to /W and /w, but
this is only an example).

I thought I remembered a characer I could use to invert a match like this so
if I were doing:

$line =~ s/[a-zA-Z]/x/g;

that if I used it, I could replace all characters NOT matching that range
instead of the ones that do.

Is there such a way to do this, or do I mis-remember?

Thanks!

Hal

Hal Vaughan <> wrote in comp.lang.perl.misc:
> I can't find this in the FAQ, but I thought it was. If I have a range of
> characters, like [a-zA-Z], how can I specify that I want to match any
> character NOT in that range? (Yes, I know this is close to /W and /w, but
> this is only an example).
>
> I thought I remembered a characer I could use to invert a match like this so
> if I were doing:
>
> $line =~ s/[a-zA-Z]/x/g;
>
> that if I used it, I could replace all characters NOT matching that range
> instead of the ones that do.

Have you looked at perlre? You're looking for "^".

Anno
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Anno Siegel wrote:

> Hal Vaughan <> wrote in comp.lang.perl.misc:
>> I can't find this in the FAQ, but I thought it was. If I have a range of
>> characters, like [a-zA-Z], how can I specify that I want to match any
>> character NOT in that range? (Yes, I know this is close to /W and /w,
>> but this is only an example).
>>
>> I thought I remembered a characer I could use to invert a match like this
>> so if I were doing:
>>
>> $line =~ s/[a-zA-Z]/x/g;
>>
>> that if I used it, I could replace all characters NOT matching that range
>> instead of the ones that do.
>
> Have you looked at perlre? You're looking for "^".

That's it!

I can never remember all the terms to search for. I tried regular
expression, regex and re. Forgot perlre.

I thought ^ was to match the beginning of a line, so my brain just wouldn't
accept it -- and I forgot to put it INSIDE the brackets!

Thanks!

Hal

Hal Vaughan <> wrote in
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> Anno Siegel wrote:

....

>> Have you looked at perlre?

....

> I can never remember all the terms to search for.

perldoc perltoc

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On Tue, 4 Oct 2005, Hal Vaughan wrote:

> Anno Siegel wrote:
>
> > Have you looked at perlre? You're looking for "^".
>
> That's it!
>
> I can never remember all the terms to search for. I tried regular
> expression, regex and re. Forgot perlre.
>
> I thought ^ was to match the beginning of a line, so my brain just
> wouldn't accept it -- and I forgot to put it INSIDE the brackets!

You have to keep a clear distinction between the mini syntax which
applies for character classes (inside [ ] ), and the more usual syntax
in regular expressions in general.

A. Sinan Unur wrote:

> Hal Vaughan <> wrote in
> news::
>
>> Anno Siegel wrote:
>
> ...
>
>>> Have you looked at perlre?
>
> ...
>
>> I can never remember all the terms to search for.
>
> perldoc perltoc

Thanks. I never knew that! (Seriously -- I was used to searching for
terms, but never new there was a toc!)

Hal

Hal Vaughan <> wrote:
> A. Sinan Unur wrote:
>
>> Hal Vaughan <> wrote in
>> news::
>>
>>> Anno Siegel wrote:
>>
>> ...
>>
>>>> Have you looked at perlre?
>>
>> ...
>>
>>> I can never remember all the terms to search for.
>>
>> perldoc perltoc
>
> Thanks. I never knew that! (Seriously -- I was used to searching for
> terms, but never new there was a toc!)


Then you must have not even tried the somewhat obvious:

perldoc perl

which also lists the std docs, including the ToC.


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