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Re: Regex weirdness

I read the first article and it says that Sun's 1.4 JDK should be up to negative look-behinds with optional characters and of varying lengths.

To answer Greg Guerin's question,

(?<!<b/?|<br/?)> should match all >'s not preceded by <b, <b/, <br, or <br/.

Similarly,

(?<!<br/?|<b/?)> should do the same thing with just the disjunction stated in a different order.

To clarify for those who don't live in regexes, (?<!pattern1)pattern2 will match pattern2 when it is not preceded by pattern1. So, in my case, pattern1 is either <b/?|<br/? or <br/?|<b/? which should function identically. Right?

Todd

P.S. to Greg. Using regexes probably results from the 2 years I spent parsing various documents in Perl. I just threw all the tags into a String[], made patterns that matched them, and then used replaceAll. Strangely, only <br/> has a problem, probably due to interference from <b/>.

On Apr 2, 2004, at 8:19 PM, Larry Rosenstein wrote:

At 8:29 AM -0500 4/2/04, Todd O'Bryan wrote:
Can someone confirm that (a) this actually happens, and that (b) it's a bug and there's not some reason first regex should match while the second doesn't?

Take a look at <http://www.regular-expressions.info/lookaround.html> and <http://www.regular-expressions.info/alternation.html>. It has some good information about how these regexp constructs are implemented.

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Larry Rosenstein
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