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in thread Perl & regex help

It fails on a string like this: "I saw a dog & a cat;".

A safer solution, would be: /&(?!#?[a-zA-Z0-9]+;)/

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Re^4: Perl & regex help
by Kenosis (Priest) on Jan 30, 2013 at 23:45 UTC

    Excellent catch! Perhaps just the following: /&(?!\S+?;)/

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