[regex-coach] negative lookahead assertion bug? message 7 of 20)

[recoach.z.pbowers at spamgourmet.com]

This ([a-z0-9]* )  will only match lowercase letters.  The capital W will
not be matched.  Thus only B-ab6142 will match.  Use
	Pattern: ([A-Z]-)(?![a-z]{3})([a-zA-Z0-9]* )
If you want it to match the C- pattern as well.

-Peter

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Arian Hojat - armyofda12mnkeys at gmail.com 
> [mailto:+recoach+pbowers+7ef1bd310e.armyofda12mnkeys#gmail.com
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> Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2008 5:44 PM
> To: regex-coach at common-lisp.net
> Subject: [regex-coach] negative lookahead assertion bug? 
> (recoach: message 7 of 20)
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> had a question/possible bug report...
> For the example on this webpage:
> http://www.nuclearblender.com/leftovers/howto/regex/
> 
> this pattern is presented and i tried a positive lookup 
> assertion which worked, but this first negative one only 
> matched the first pattern (global option is on btw, so not 
> sure why wont match).
> Pattern: ([A-Z]-)(?![a-z]{3})([a-z0-9]* )
> Text to lookup: A-xyz37 # B-ab6142 # C-Wxy66 # D-qrs93
> 
> Should match B-ab6142 and C-Wxy66 as they both (have a 
> capital letter followed by a dash), then (dont have 3 lower 
> case letters), and (are following by letters/numbers and a space)
> only matches first one in the program.
> 
> Thanks, let me know if it should match only one if im wrong. 
> Running latest version on Windows XP.
> Great Tool!
> Arian
> 
>