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DiapDealer · 01-22-2025, 02:53 PM

Try something like:

Code:

“[^”]*\b\Kwere\b(?=.*?”)

As mentioned above, \K restarts the match from that point (basically forgetting what came before). There's very few places it can't be used to get around the no variable-width lookbehind issue.

01-22-2025, 02:53 PM	#8
DiapDealer Grand Sorcerer Posts: 28,691 Karma: 205039118 Join Date: Jan 2010 Device: Nexus 7, Kindle Fire HD	Try something like: Code: “[^”]\b\Kwere\b(?=.?”) As mentioned above, \K restarts the match from that point (basically forgetting what came before). There's very few places it can't be used to get around the no variable-width lookbehind issue.