Reply To: GREP Tricks: Using LookBehind and LookAhead expressions to convert a SPACE into a NON-BREAK SPACE

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May 17, 2020 at 8:10 am #1250934
Peter Kahrel
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\K is for positive lookbehind only as far as I know. The classic lookbehind doesn’t handle variable-length arguments, so you can’t use operators like + and *. But in your case you can enumerate the options, in which case you can use the classic lookbehind:

((?<!ABCDE)(?<!FGH))XYZ

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