How do i extract this from a regex:
mymatch[ someother char ]
What i want is mymatch when followed by a [ but i don't want the square bracket in the match.
I'm stuck on this but it gets also the square bracket:
\b.*?\[
More in general, how can i exclude from the match some portion of the pattern?
For example here (abc2)mymatch i want a regex returning my match only when it is preeceds by (abc2).
in this you need to use lookahead and lookbehind , in first one use positive lookahead :
\w+(?=\[)
?=[ : mean followed by "[" and not catch in matches
in second example use positive lookbehind :
(?<=\(abc2\))\w+
(?<=(abc2)) : mean leaded by "(abc2)" and not catch in matches