Re: Look Behind issues (just matching)

How about no look behind?

match 
entity # $1
commatarget # $2
and replace entity with itself and commatarget with comma, and you're 
+done :)
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Re^2: Look Behind issues (just matching) by Anonymous Monk on Mar 05, 2015 at 04:32 UTC
As soon as you try making it any valid entity format, you're back to no look behind because its fixed width only http://perldoc.perl.org/perlre.html#%28?%3C!pattern%29 `my $f = 'blah;, ente°, blah;, blah.'; $f =~ s{(?<!&[#]x[A-Za-z0-9]{2});,}{,}g; print "$f\n"; __END__ blah, ente°, blah, blah.` [download]	[reply] [d/l]