note 20798 deleted from function.preg-match by sniper
| From: | sniper@php.net | Date: | Fri, 17 Oct 2003 03:28:45 +0000 |
| Subject: | note 20798 deleted from function.preg-match by sniper | ||
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Note Submitter: monte@ispi.net
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It is possible to do negative lookbehinds with PCRE (perl 5+), but only fixed length.
preg_match('/(?<!AB)C/',$foo,$match);
This will match 'C' only if NOT preceeded by 'AB'. 'AB' must be a
fixed length string, it cannot be an expression.