Say I had a string satisfying /^[A-Z_]{6}$/, but not equal to '______' and I
wish to extract from that the 1 or 2 letters which are closest to the n-th
character in the string. Is there a simple regexp to perform that task?
e.g.
if the string=A_Z_K_ then:
if n=1, then I want 'A' (or 'AA', not fussed)
if n=2, then I want 'AZ'
if n=3, then I want 'Z' (or 'ZZ', not fussed)
if n=4, then I want 'ZK'
if n=5 or 6, then I want 'K' (or 'KK', not fussed)
I can see how to do it with the concatenation of two matches from two substrs,
but that's barely simpler than a naive loop over each character forwards and
backwards.
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