Regular expressions - finding a pattern that does not consist of "xyz"

[Michan]

Hi everyone,

 

I'm trying to select any url that does not consist of a "\" (backslash), "mail", "ftp", or "www".

 

This is what I have:

([^/|(www|ftp|mail)]+)

 

However, that blocks out any urls that contain the letters "w", "f", "t", "p", "m", "a", "i", and "l". Other urls work fine.

 

How should this expression look if I want to block the whole words rather than the letters of them?

 

Thanks in advance!

[teng84]

im not good at regex but try

 

$string = 'www';
if (eregi('((www)|(ftp)|(mail))', $string)) {
    echo "'$string'";
}

[dsaba]

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