Re: [FWP] Gender differentiation

[Steve Willer <willer@interlog.com>]

On Fri, 2 Jul 1999, Bernie Cosell wrote:

> >   /(^|[^o])men/i
> > 
> > ...but that doesn't work.
> 
> 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?

Hmm. It really didn't work for me. I just tried:

   perl -e 'print "men at the beginning" =~ /(^|[^o])men/i, "\n"'

...and it didn't match. To be honest, I can't think of any reason why it
_shouldn't_ work, so perhaps this is a "bug" that was fixed in perl
somewhere along the way? I'm using 5.004_04; perhaps you're using 5.005?


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