Re: Regexp: How to match in middle but not the ends?

Perhaps you should read perlre and see if a non-greedy modifier /[CSH][CSHL]+?/ helps? Or explicitly require that the last character isn't an L, /[CSH][CSHL]*[CSH]/g.

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Re^2: Regexp: How to match in middle but not the ends? by ikegami (Patriarch) on Jul 28, 2006 at 20:39 UTC
`/[CSH][CSHL]+?/` doesn't work. It would incorrectly match "`CL`" in "`---CL---`", and it will never match more than two characters. `/[CSH][CSHL]*[CSH]/` works. If there wasn't a two character minimum, we'd have to use zero-width lookaheads and/or lookbehinds.	[reply] [d/l] [select]