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Using Look-ahead and Look-behind

by Roy Johnson (Monsignor)
on Dec 21, 2005 at 21:57 UTC ( [id://518444]=perltutorial: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??

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  1. or download this
    /foo(?!.*foo)/
    
  2. or download this
    s/(?<=foo)/,/g; # Without lookbehind: s/foo/foo,/g or s/(foo)/$1,/g
    
  3. or download this
    s/(?<=look)(?=ahead)/-/g;
    
  4. or download this
    /foo  # Match starting at foo
     (         # Capture
    ...
     )         # End capture
     bar  # and ending at bar
    /x;
    
  5. or download this
    s/(?<=,        # after a comma,
        (?!        # but not matching
    ...
          (?=\d)   #   digit afterward
        )
      )/ /gx;      # substitute a space
    
  6. or download this
    s/(?<=,        # after a comma, but either
        (?:
    ...
          (?!\d)   #   not matching digit afterward
        )
      )/ /gx;      # substitute a space
    
  7. or download this
    print "$1\n" while /(?=(.*))/g;
    

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