If you wish to negate something in regex, one of the easiest and most reliable ways to do it is to employ negative lookahead assertion. Having a need to split the set of objects into different categories with some “other” / “default” / “the rest” option is one of the most common use cases where this approach can be used.
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retrieving country codes from IP automatically
I once had a need to monitor the origin of HTTP requests, track it in real time from web server log. Since this need was actually nothing more but pure curiosity, I was not willing to pay for it. So I started looking for free solutions for this purpose – convert IP to country. Here is what it all ended at…
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