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Scott
Scott

Reputation: 6251

Don't match if string contains specific text

I have made this regex:

(?<=span class="ope">)?[a-z0-9]+?\.(pl|com|net\.pl|tk|org|org\.pl|eu)|$(?=<\/span>)$

It does match the strings like: example.pl, example12.com, something.eu but it will also match the dontwantthis.com.

My question is how to don't match a string in case if it contains the dontwantthis string?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 212

Answers (2)

Yanick Rochon
Yanick Rochon

Reputation: 53531

It seems that you are extracting content from span elements using a regular expression. Now, despite all the reasons why this is not such a good idea...

... just keep the expression you have. Then, if you have a match, filter out the matched entries that should be rejected.

var $match = extractContentFromHtml($html);  // use regex here, return false if no match
if ($match && validMatch($match)) {
    // do something
}

where validMatch(string) should check if the value exists in some array, for example.

Upvotes: 1

Niet the Dark Absol
Niet the Dark Absol

Reputation: 324620

You're probably following your regex with a loop to cycle through matches. In this case, it's probably easiest to just check for the presence of the dontwantthis substring and continue if it's there. Trying to implement it in regex is just asking for trouble.

Upvotes: 3

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