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Re:RegExp Lookbehind Assertions by minitech on Monday February 29, 2016 @05:19PM (#11199120)
Ever used \b? This is like that, but for other patterns. Very useful in many situations, like tokenizing (because you have to match on things the last match already consumed).
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Re:RegExp Lookbehind Assertions by lolc on Monday February 29, 2016 @06:20PM (#11199556)
Maybe I've used \b before, but I can't recall using regexes for tokenizing. They've either been too powerful or not powerful enough for my tokenizing needs.
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