Reply To: GREP: Different behaviour of positive lookahead/lookbehind

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August 1, 2015 at 1:19 pm #77086
David Blatner
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Well, just to be clear, you could use ^[^"]*blah which means “from the beginning of the paragraph up to the word blah, but only if there is no quote mark.” But that doesn’t find just the word “blah” — it finds the whole enchilada.

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