[PLUG] Regex question

[Scott Van Hoosen]

I'm trying to use perl and a regular expression to find all instances
of "Fred" in a file except for "Fred Flintstone" and "Fred Mertz".
Here's the closest I found, but doesn't quite work:

  /Fred [^(Mertz|Flintstone)]/

It only compares the first letters of Mertz and Flintstone, so it also
filters out "Fred Magoo" and "Fred Meyer". How can I negate a string
rather than a single character?

-Scott


		
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