Now, the regex engine tries to process the remaining part. It first looks for a string and, of course, when caret is right before the string, the negative look-ahead (?!) is necessarily true.
So, whatever is matched so far, it must go on matching… till the string at the very end of file Regex A5 matches anything from till the very end of fileĪll the other regexes match from till the very end of fileīefore providing some solutions to your problem, I’m going to explain, first, what all these regexes match and why !įirst note that all your regexes end with \z. Path : C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++\notepad++.exeĪh… interesting problem ! So, Andre, you’ve tried these 7 regexes expressions, listed below, without finding a way to only match from the last ).+?\z
Is my negative lookahead usage incorrect?ĭebug info, if it matters: Notepad++ v7.9.5 (32-bit) Of course, I wouldn’t be able to use expressions like those for my actual data anyway, since the text between and could be almost anything. …all result in everything from on being matched again. If I try this: (?!here is some text).+?\z I want to match ONLY from the LAST ).+?\zĪll of the above result in everything from on being matched (everything but the opening ). Ficticious example of HTML code, which contains no newline sequences: here is some textanother stringmiscellaneous datablah blah blah blah
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