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Re: Quickie - Regexp for a string not at the beginning of the line


From: PJ Weisberg
Subject: Re: Quickie - Regexp for a string not at the beginning of the line
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 19:19:11 -0700

On Thursday, October 25, 2012, Rivka Miller <rivkaumiller@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello Programmers,
>
> I am looking for a regexp for a string not at the beginning of the
> line.
>
> For example, I want to find $hello$ that does not occur at the
> beginning of the string, ie all $hello$ that exclude ^$hello$.

How about a zero-width lookbehind for any character?

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-PJ

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magic is insufficiently advanced.

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