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Re^3: RE greediness

by Anonymous Monk
on May 29, 2024 at 20:46 UTC ( [id://11159723]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re^2: RE greediness
in thread RE greediness

    (?:...) is a non-capturing group, positive lookahead uses (?=...) which I can't find in the regex used.
Sorry for the typo, meant to type this, but it's still wrong: 
/(a)(?=(.*?)(?:b=(\w)))?/

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This seems to work: 
/(a)(.*?)(?=b=(\w)|\z)/

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