Re: Understanding whitespace

[email protected] ((Randal L. Schwartz)) 15 Nov 2003 11:35:27 -0800

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>>>>> "Colin" == Colin Kuskie <[email protected]> writes:

>> DOMAIN_COMP	: /is\s+[not]*/ix

Colin> If your character class, [not], is really supposed to be
Colin> parentheses, then this should work:

Colin> DOMAIN_COMP	: /(?:is not)|(?:is)\s*/ix

Yeah, I looked at that and said

        "is", followed by mandatory whitespace,
        followed by 0 or more of n, o, and t.

Ugh.  That'd match "is tonnon" :)

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