Re^2: How to capture backwards using regex?

Yeah, I've played around with positive look-behind regex, and it just didn't want to work. Of course, I'm using TinyPerl 5.8, so I'm a decade or two behind. lol But surprisingly, Corion's solution works flawlessly on TinyPerl 5.8, so that's great!

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Re^3: How to capture backwards using regex? by LanX (Saint) on Nov 10, 2024 at 17:53 UTC
Look behind used to only work with fixed length patterns. IIRC. That's most likely also related to the "experimental" status of my code. > But surprisingly, Corion's solution works flawlessly Doesn't surprise me that's a very old feature, could be even Perl4. The idea of `Pos` and related stuff is very sed/awk-ish, and text processing was one of the main objectives of Perl4. Cheers Rolf _{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :) see Wikisyntax for the Monastery}	[reply]

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Re^3: How to capture backwards using regex?
by LanX (Saint) on Nov 10, 2024 at 17:53 UTC

That's most likely also related to the "experimental" status of my code.

> But surprisingly, Corion's solution works flawlessly

Doesn't surprise me that's a very old feature, could be even Perl4.

The idea of Pos and related stuff is very sed/awk-ish, and text processing was one of the main objectives of Perl4.

Cheers Rolf
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see Wikisyntax for the Monastery}

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