On Fri, 3 Aug 2001, Bernard Stern wrote:
> I need to match 'any line ending in '"' but not in '\"'.
> So my regex looks like:
>
> /(?<!\\)"$/
>
> then:
>
> re> /(?<!\\)"$/
> data> fdsafsdfdfda"
> 0: "
>
> which is ok, but
>
> data> dfasdfdaf\"
> 0: "
>
> which should not be ok.
Your regex is fine. What you have overlooked is that pcretest notices
backslashes in its data strings! You need to type
dfsasdfd\\"
to get it to pass a line containing
dfsasdfd\"
to PCRE. Check out the pcretest spec.
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