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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to make working this regex in perl? Post 302927386 by Scrutinizer on Tuesday 2nd of December 2014 02:54:38 PM
Old 12-02-2014
The error message is what it says. The lookbehind can not be of variable length. That means in this case that the use of alternation (|) in (?<=^|RR45) is not allowed because the two sides (^ and RR45) are not the same length..

Last edited by Scrutinizer; 12-02-2014 at 04:08 PM..
 

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MB_REGEX_SET_OPTIONS(3) 						 1						   MB_REGEX_SET_OPTIONS(3)

mb_regex_set_options - Set/Get the default options for mbregex functions

SYNOPSIS
string mb_regex_set_options ([string $options = mb_regex_set_options()]) DESCRIPTION
Sets the default options described by $options for multibyte regex functions. PARAMETERS
o $options - The options to set. This is a string where each character is an option. To set a mode, the mode character must be the last one set, however there can only be set one mode but multiple options. Regex options +-------+-------------------------------+---+---+ |Option | | | | | | | | | | | Meaning | | | | | | | | +-------+-------------------------------+---+---+ | i | | | | | | | | | | | Ambiguity match on | | | | | | | | | x | | | | | | | | | | | Enables extended pattern form | | | | | | | | | m | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | '.' matches with newlines | | | | | | | | | s | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | '^' -> 'A', '$' -> '' | | | | | | | | | p | | | | | | | | | | | Same as both the m and s | | | | | options | | | | | | | | | l | | | | | | | | | | | Finds longest matches | | | | | | | | | n | | | | | | | | | | | Ignores empty matches | | | | | | | | | e | | | | | | | | | | | eval(3) resulting code | | | | | | | | +-------+-------------------------------+---+---+ Regex syntax modes +-----+----------------------------+---+---+ |Mode | | | | | | | | | | | Meaning | | | | | | | | +-----+----------------------------+---+---+ | j | | | | | | | | | | | Java (Sun java.util.regex) | | | | | | | | | u | | | | | | | | | | | GNU regex | | | | | | | | | g | | | | | | | | | | | grep | | | | | | | | | c | | | | | | | | | | | Emacs | | | | | | | | | r | | | | | | | | | | | Ruby | | | | | | | | | z | | | | | | | | | | | Perl | | | | | | | | | b | | | | | | | | | | | POSIX Basic regex | | | | | | | | | d | | | | | | | | | | | POSIX Extended regex | | | | | | | | +-----+----------------------------+---+---+ RETURN VALUES
The previous options. If $options is omitted, it returns the string that describes the current options. SEE ALSO
mb_split(3), mb_ereg(3), mb_eregi(3). PHP Documentation Group MB_REGEX_SET_OPTIONS(3)
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