Re: NOT operator

In message <[email protected]>, [email protected] writes:
>I tried ORO 2.0.7 in AWK-mode with a
>regular exp. which contains not operator.
...
>How can I check if pattern contains 1 
>but NOT 2? (I tried "!" and "~" and "^"
>without success! :( )

There are many variations of awk out there, so I suppose some may contain
such a regular expression metacharacter, but as far as I know traditional
awk does not.  If you want to perform boolean operations, you have to
perform multiple matches.  For example,
   matcher.contains(input, pattern1) && !matcher.contains(input, pattern2)

Sometimes you can get clever and a pattern like "^[^2]*1[^2]*$" will
serve your purpose.

daniel