Ah yes - i'd actually thought of that, there's just one problem, _how_ do
you negate it? I can't figure it out. I'm using vi btw. I do realise that
grep -v would negate it, but can you not put the negation in the regex
itself?
Steve
On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Mark Fallon wrote:
> hi,
>> Well:
>> word$
>> Will match the word at the end of the line, so I would
> negate this. The dollar sign matches the end-of-line.
>> Regards,
>> Mark
>
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