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in reply to Ovid - Microsoft does the regex dance with two left feet
in thread CGI/Perl vs. ASP

Looking at the documentation for VBScript's pattern property, I don't see any indication that the (?:) syntax is supported in VBScript. I think it makes more sense to use the VBScript reference, rather than perlre, to determine the features of VBScript.

[BTW, (?:) in Perl is not a lookahead; it's a non-capturing group. Lookahead is (?=) and (?!).]