Re: exclude atom from being matched (multiple letters)

To handle patterns like that I sub in newlines or nulls and character-set
them:

  h;s/\. */\0/g
  /first[^\0]second/{d}
  g


On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 4:42 AM, Thierry Blanc <[email protected]> wrote:

>  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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