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Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2014 22:14:41 +0000
From: Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@ntlworld.com>
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Subject: Re: difference between ~ & ^ negation
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On Thu, 02 Jan 2014 13:36:36 -0800
Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com> wrote:
> Hmm.  So what does that mean about a "^" appearing after a "^" ?  That
> is, since / is not special, the expression ^foo/^bar means something
> completely different in pattern context and file generation context?

In pattern context that's the same as ^(foo/^bar).  foo/^bar matches
foo/ followed by anything that's not bar, so this highly useful
expression matches anything except a string consisting of foo/ followed
by something other than bar.

pws