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From: PJ Weisberg <pjweisberg@gmail.com>
To: Rivka Miller <rivkaumiller@gmail.com>
Cc: "help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Quickie - Regexp for a string not at the beginning of the line
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 19:19:11 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJsNXTkcmpjCwTpWr6T+eqhDWnnu-mntNuNT0W=SvWavbHsKVA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <73f60cf3-d932-4366-a405-6767488560c6@q16g2000yqc.googlegroups.com>

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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?

-- 
-PJ

Gehm's Corollary to Clark's Law: Any technology distinguishable from
magic is insufficiently advanced.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-10-26  2:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <9eba5652-f814-41fa-83e4-460bca2be264@n16g2000yqi.googlegroups.com>
     [not found] ` <e6f60702-d85f-4aed-bc03-3147bb007ad8@googlegroups.com>
2012-10-26  1:08   ` Quickie - Regexp for a string not at the beginning of the line Rivka Miller
2012-10-26  2:00     ` Ed Morton
2012-10-26  2:11     ` Ben Bacarisse
2012-10-26  4:45       ` Rivka Miller
2012-10-26 12:11         ` Ben Bacarisse
2012-10-26 12:32         ` Ed Morton
2012-10-26  2:19     ` PJ Weisberg [this message]
2012-10-26 12:02       ` Doug Lewan
2012-10-26  3:22     ` anon

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