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Re: smiley regexp problem
From: |
Lennart Borgman |
Subject: |
Re: smiley regexp problem |
Date: |
Mon, 21 Mar 2005 14:22:59 +0100 |
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rajsekar" <address@hidden>
> The point is about \\W. \\W matches any character that is not a
> word-constituent. I want `:-)' to become a smile if it is followed by any
> of `\\W' but not ')'. If I put it as "\\(:-?)\\)[^)]", then even strings
> like "smile_within:-)strings" also get smileys. So I am looking for a way
> to specify "characters in \\W but no ')' in the language of regexps".
Oh, I see. I can't find any way to do it. You can perhaps build a larger
[^...] but that is not exactly what you want. BTW the reg exps in perl is a
bit stronger and I believe things like what you want can be done there.