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From: JupiterHost.Net [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, April 14, 2006 12:15 PM
To: beginners@perl.org
Subject: Re: regex matching conditionally
>Timothy Johnson wrote:
>> Will the string always have the two quotes in the same place and only
>> one per string? What about something like this?
>>
>> /.*?\{([^\}]*)\}(?=.*")/gi
>
>I tested it out and it appears to be perect! Thank Mr. Johnson :)
>
>I love when I learn a new tidbit!
Originally I tried to put a look-behind assertion that was basically the
opposite of the look-ahead assertion to make sure we'd already passed
the first double-quote, but it turns out that you can't make a
variable-length look-behind assertion in a regex for some reason. I can
see that it will be available in Perl 6, but that's a long way (and a
lot of adjustment) away, I think.
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