regex + python

[Flynn555]

hey i had a quick question about regular expressions in python

this is probably rather "noobie" but regex is not one of my strong points.

say i want to grab all the lines from an input file that do not begin with the character C

i know the expression to grab the lines that do begin with C is

^C.*

but i cant figure out how to just grab the lines that donot begin with C. is there any sort of negation in regex?

ex. !(^C).* <-- didnt work :(

any ideas?

[unutbu]

^[^c]*

That is suppose to be a capital C, but for some reason VBulletin is not allowing me to write that.

Anyway, [^C] means any character except C.

[Flynn555]

^[^c]*


edit: sorry works great thanks! ... kindof

[Flynn555]

edit fixed it

[ghostdog74]

simple task like this you don't need regular expression. if its not your strong points, then focus more on Python's basics...



if not mystring.startswith("C") :
print "doesn't start with c"