Re^2: substitution with exceptions

Negative look-behind only works for fixed length patterns, "aren" and "isn" are of different lengths.

(?<!n)'t
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might work, but if you need to exclude both, you can't use

(?<!aren|isn)'t

Variable length lookbehind not implemented in regex m/(?<!aren|isn)'t/
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You can specify them one by one, though:

(?<!aren)(?<!isn)'t
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($q=q:Sq=~/;[c](.)(.)/;chr(-||-|5+lengthSq)`"S|oS2"`map{chr |+ord
}map{substrSq`S_+|`|}3E|-|`7**2-3:)=~y+S|`+$1,++print+eval$q,q,a,
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Re^3: substitution with exceptions by LanX (Saint) on Sep 27, 2018 at 19:45 UTC
Tsk, you replied to the king of updates without checking ? ;-p Cheers Rolf _{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :) Wikisyntax for the Monastery FootballPerl is like chess, only without the dice}	[reply]