Bret Miller wrote:
> >I flunked the IQ test so I need some help. I want to match 
> >all domains 
> >in the body that are not in .com,.org.us,.edu,.gov and .mil. 
> >But there's 
> >more. I need to match some characters at the end of the URI that can 
> >often be found there such as >.?)*!"';
> >
> >The rule would match http://www.go.za and http://www.go.za), but not 
> >match http://www.go.com
> >
> >Here's my regex that does not work...
> >
> >m{https?://[^\s/:"')!?>*]+(?<!\.com)(?<!\.net)(?<!\.org)(?<!\.
> >gov)(?<!\.us)(?<!\.edu)(?<!\.mil)(?:"|'|:|\?|!|>|\*|\)|$)}
> >
> >
> >It works for all of the characters except for an ending "." such as 
> >http://www.go.com.
> >
> >I have grappled with this for some time and read the pcrepattern.txt 
> >accompanying Exim source, but damn if I can get it to work. 
> >Anybody want to spit out the answer?
>  
>  
>  I'm no regex expert, but your ending (?:"|'|:|\?|!|>|\*|\)|$) doesn't
>  list a ., so it wouldn't catch it.
>  
>  Maybe 
>      (?:"|'|:|\?|!|>|\*|\)|$|\.)
>  Would be better?
>  
>  Bret
>  
>  
>  
Thanks, Bret, but I tried that and got matches up to all the "."s in the 
uri.