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How do I stop regular expression from capturing what it has \} in the text? I want you to get all the }, but I want if it’s escaped with the character to be discarded, not ignored.
I’m trying that expression: [^\\]} but it returns a character before the }...
Summary: If you have the character \ before the }, disposal the capture.
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In the comment of @Viníciusgobboa.deOliveira was used a Egative lookbehind assertion (?<! subexpression) to check the previous character. PCRE and . NET syntax is the same.
(?<!\\)(\})
It means: capture a square bracket only if there is no backslash before.
Important, the groups started with (? are not counted, then the group (\}) will have index 1.
Yeah, I didn’t want them to } were captured too, but then I put the not capturing group, in the way (?<!\\)(?:\}) and it worked, after that } didn’t appear on the mailing lists, and I was able to do the Regex.Split() normally.
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I don’t know on . Net, but on pcre, this works:
{(.*[^\\])}– Vinícius Gobbo A. de Oliveira
This one is capturing the field {...} whole... I just want you to capture the } other than }...
– CypherPotato
Got it wrong. This expression works on Pcre (if I’ve got it right this time...):
(?<!\\)(})– Vinícius Gobbo A. de Oliveira
Thanks @Viníciusgobboa.deOliveira, it worked!
– CypherPotato