Re: [FWP] Gender differentiation

["Bernie Cosell" <bernie@fantasyfarm.com>]

On 2 Jul 99, at 3:01, Steve Willer wrote:

> I've been trying to come up with a way to match "men" in any string, but
> not get a false match from "women".
> 
> I would very much like to use something like:
> 
>   /(^|[^o])men/i
> 
> ...but that doesn't work.

I guess, given the other responses, that I get the dunce cap for the day. 
Maybe you need to explain a bit better what it is you are trying to do, 
because it looked to me like that RE does exactly what you said.  I tried 
it with:

Thiss is a men in the middle     <
this is a snowmen                <
this is a women
men at the beginning             <
women at the beginning

and your RE picked out just the three indicated, which seemed to me to be 
exactly what you wanted.  What would be an example of a string you wanted 
matched that that RE missed, or conversely something you wanted skipped 
that it matches?

  /Bernie\
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Bernie Cosell                     Fantasy Farm Fibers
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