Hello everyone,
I am trying to write a regex pattern to match an ID in a URL only if it
is not a given ID. Here's an example, the ID not to match is
"14522XXX98", if my URL is "/profile.php?id=14522XXX99" I want it to
match and if it's "/profile.php?id=14522XXX98" I want it not to. I tried
this:
>>> re.search(r"/profile.php\?id=(\d+)(?<!14522XXX98)",
"/profile.php?id=14522XXX98").groups()
('14522XXX9',)
which should not match, but it does, then I tried this :
>>> re.search(r"/profile.php\?id=(\d+)(?<!14522XXX98)",
"/profile.php?id=14522XXX99").groups()
('14522XXX99',)
which should match and it does. I then tried uring /positive lookbehind
assertion/ instead and it does this :
>>> re.search(r"/profile.php\?id=(\d+)(?<=14522XXX98)",
"/profile.php?id=14522XXX98").groups()
('14522XXX98',)
which matches as it should and then I tried this :
>>> re.search(r"/profile.php\?id=(\d+)(?<=14522XXX98)",
"/profile.php?id=14522XXX99").groups()
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'groups'
which doesn't match as it should. Could someone please explain why the
negative lookbehind assertion is not working as I understand it? Also,
notice how the last digit of the first expression is not matched, I get
('14522XXX9',) instead of ('14522XXX98',), why? It does on the others....
Thank you,
Gabriel
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