Reply To: GREP, if it could only go backwards
Wow, you guys are fast. Yeah, with Jongware's explanation it seems to make sense. Just to clarify, i could do the same for any sentence ending in “may not specify” by using:
(?<=\.)[^.]+may not specify\.
Right? Big help guys, thanks
And yes I would agree with jongware on not italicizing the () characters, but sadly the choice is not mine. Its a 20+yo catalog and they're not too keen on changing the style standards for the sake of good design standards 
edited grep code so its actually correct, left out the lookbehind oops
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