From: ptkwt@... (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2004-09-12T13:09:58+09:00
Subject: look-behind in oniguruma

Apparently oniguruma supports look-behind.  Is there any documentation on how 
to use this feature?

for example, if I had the string "~ABC~DE" and I want to return a list of 
letters in the string which are preceeded by '~' ( ['A','D'] in this case) how 
might I use the look-behind feature in oniguruma to achieve this? or, how 
would I get a list of letters in the string which are not preceeded by '~' 
(['B','C', 'E'] in this example.

(I know there are other ways of doing this, I'm just posing this as an example 
of using look-behind).

Here's one that's a bit trickier: What if I had "~(ABC)DE" and I want the 
tilde (a negation operator) to apply to each letter within the parens that it 
preceeds, so that I would get ['A','B','C'], but in the case where the input 
string is "(ABC)DE" I would get an empty list.... and then of course I would 
want them to be nestable: "~(~ABC)" ('A' should not appear in the list in this 
case since it's doubly negated - OK, that's probably going too far and 
maybe it's getting to the point where I should break out RACC ;-)

Phil