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Regular Expressions: Lookbehinds

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Lookaheads use the ?= symbol. Lookbehinds use ?<=.

/(?<=Roger) Waters/

/(?<=Roger) Waters/.test('Pink Waters is my dog') //false
/(?<=Roger) Waters/.test('Roger is my dog and Roger Waters is a famous musician') //true

A lookbehind is negated using ?<!:

/(?<!Roger) Waters/

/(?<!Roger) Waters/.test('Pink Waters is my dog') //true
/(?<!Roger) Waters/.test('Roger is my dog and Roger Waters is a famous musician') //false

Lessons in this unit:

0: Introduction
1: Introduction
2: Anchoring
3: Match Items in Ranges
4: Matching a Range Item Multiple Times
5: Negating a Pattern
6: Meta Characters
7: Regular Expressions Choices
8: Quantifiers
9: Optional Items
10: Groups
11: Capturing Groups
12: Using match and exec Without Groups
13: Noncapturing Groups
14: Flags
15: Inspecting a Regex
16: Escaping
17: String Boundaries
18: Replacing
19: Greediness
20: Lookaheads
21: ▶︎ Lookbehinds
22: Unicode
23: Unicode Property Escapes
24: Examples