negative lookbefore for a blackslash in ruby 1.9

Question

I want to match every '[' or ']' that's not preceded by a backslash in ruby 1.9 I tried:

/?<!\134[\[\]]/

and

/?<!\\\\[\[\]]/

but I get a 'target of repeat operator not specified'

Answer 1

You will need to wrap the negative lookbehind in parenthesis.

(?<!\\)[\[\]]