[linux-help] Re: Regexp question

[Jesse Kaufman <glandix@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

actually, it's in my httpd.conf ...  i'm trying to redirect everything
*except* /foobar/* on a site to / ...  i'm using the RedirectMatch
command...  maybe there's a better way of doing this?

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On Sat, 11 Nov 2000, Steven Saner wrote:

> Is this a perl regexp? If so you can use !~ to invert a regexp. So you
> could do:
> 
> if ($var !~ m/foobar.*/)
> 
> That would be true only if $var does not match m/foobar.*/
> 
> If you are using a regexp with grep on the command line, you can do a
> similar thing with the -v option.
> 
> grep -v 'foobar.*' file
> 
> That will return all lines in the file that do not match foobar.*
> 
> Is that what you are after?
> 
> 
> On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 05:24:56PM -0600, Jesse Kaufman wrote:
> > Ok, I'm trying to get a regexp working to do the following:
> > 
> > match anything that does not match /foobar.* and return it (ie: using
> > "()"'s)...  how would someone go about negating an entire regexpression
> > (if that's what you'd call it..)?
> > 
> > ie:
> > 
> > "/foobar/blah" would match the above
> > "/foobar" would match the above
> > "/test" would not, and "/test" would be returned
> > 
> > thanks,
> > gLaNDix
> > 
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> > 
> > 
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