Re: exclude atom from being matched (multiple letters)

well, the case was a html parsing, it was not end of line.

here is the line where I wanted the do-not-match-dot-followed-by-spaces 
before the '<o:p>'

s/.*<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal.*>([^<>][^<>]*)*[HERE NO DOT 
FOLLOWED BY ZERO OR MORE SPACES]*<o:p>.*/\\subsection*{\1}/

a not-the-following-atom syntax would be very handy ...


here is the solution I eventually used:

# subsection insert
/<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal/{
/><o:p>/bsubsection
/\. *<o:p>/bsubsection
s/.*<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: 
normal.*>([^<>][^<>]*)<o:p>.*/\\subsection*{\1}/
}
:subsection


On 09/05/13 11:15, Jim Hill wrote:
> Yes - /\. *$/! { /^foo/ d; }
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