[Tutor] regex: not start with FOO

[Jervis Whitley]

On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 9:46 AM, Bernard Rankin <berankin99 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
>
> I'd like to match any line that does not start with FOO.  (Using just a reg-ex rule)
>
> 1) What is the effective difference between:
>
> (?!^FOO).*
>
> ^(?!FOO).*
>
> 2) Is there a better way to do this?
>

myline = 'FOO things in line'

>>> myline.startswith('FOO')
True

Cheers,