#!/usr/bin/env ruby
  
  # This file is a part of an Information Retrieval oriented Ruby library
  #
  # Copyright (C) 2010-2011 Romain Deveaud <romain.deveaud@gmail.com>
  #
  # This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
  # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
  # the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
  # (at your option) any later version.
  #
  # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
  # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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  # GNU General Public License for more details.
  #
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  # along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
  
  class Regexp
  
    def negated
      /^((?!#{self}).)*$/
    end
  
  end