Re: regexp behin assertions ?

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

epanda wrote:

I would like to identify in a pattern a number wich is not

        preceded by     another number    a word or a ';'
        followed
by       ;number
~      ;\d+

I have tried this  s/\d+(?<!\w)/aWord/g  without success.

You probably want to reverse the order.

    /(?<!\w)\d+/

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