(Quoting part of the original code from before a silent update was done. Note that the correction that follows still applies to the 2nd version of the code but, of course, may not apply to some future version of the code if more updates are made.) 

/(\d{3})(?!\d{3})$/s

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Well, you picked an example where that works but not for the reasons that you think. Your example only works because you picked an example string that matches the much simpler: 

/(\d{3})$/s

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A regex that is actually functionally identical to your regex.

What you wanted was more like: 

/(\d{3})(?!.*\d{3})/s

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(Update: Removed the '$' from before the last closing paren.)

But I'd still prefer the ( ... )[-1] approach as complex regexes often lead to mistakes, as we have seen twicethrice already in this thread.

- tye        

In reply to Re^2: Match only last occurrence (?!.*) by tye
in thread Match only last occurrence by sotona

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