On 3/12/07, Dave Cardwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello there, I'm having trouble constructing a regular expression that
would do the following:
FOO...
...followed by anything but BAR (non-greedy)...
...followed by BAZ (captured)...
...followed by anything but BAR (greedy)...
...followed by BAR
I've been looking at zero-width negative look-ahead, but I haven't used
this area of regular expressions before so I'm struggling. A solution or
prod in the right direction would be lovely.
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The key here is "zero-width". These constructs do not consume any
characters, so they must be combine with patterns that do:
/^FOO(?!BAR).*?(BAZ)(?!BAR).*BAR/
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