From rossahmed@googlemail.com Mon Sep 23 12:55:51 2013
From: Ross Ahmed <rossahmed@googlemail.com>
To: textmate@lists.macromates.com
Subject: [TxMt] why isn't regular expression working
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2013 13:59:33 +0100
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I trying to make a regular expression to find ³this is a test² is the
following string:

<a href="index.cfm?action=search.listings&amp;test=6&amp;view=names">this is
a test</a>

This is the regular expression:

(?<=.+).+(?=</a>)

The regular expression is not matching anything. Is there something I¹m
doing wrong here or does TextMate not support the regular expression flavour
I¹m trying to use?

Thanks
Ross







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From craig@dazium.com Mon Sep 23 13:18:52 2013
From: Craig Hess <craig@dazium.com>
To: textmate@lists.macromates.com
Subject: [TxMt] Re: why isn't regular expression working
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2013 08:18:30 -0500
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> (?<=.+).+(?=</a>)
>

Most regex engines do not support regex pattern matching inside a
lookbehind. According
regular-expressions.info<http://www.regular-expressions.info/lookaround.html>,
the only engines that do are provided by JGsoft, and the .NET framework.

I believe TextMate uses the Oniguruma regex engine.

See if this one meets your needs instead:
(?<=>).*(?=\<\/a\>)



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