[Omaha.pm] Perl regexp problem...

["Daniel Linder" <dan@linder.org>]

In a program (which supposedly uses Perl for the back-end), it has a
filter field that I can define using Perl regexp expressions.

For example, this line:
^var1=(?i)(.*)(5705)(.*)
will find all lines that begin with "var1=", followed byt any
characters, then 5705, then any other characters.  This filter works
fine.

What I want to do is write a filter that finds the opposite lines; i.e all
lines that begin with "var1=" but do not have 5705 in their
value.  I tried
^var1=(?i)(.*)(^5705)(.*)
but that didn't work...

Any ideas?  

Dan

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