From: Assaph Mehr <assaph@...>
Date: 2005-01-18T07:31:06+09:00
Subject: Re: My regexp stupidity needs assistance before loose all my hair!

> I had an escape character match in the regexp:
>
>   / [^`] \[(.+?)\] /x
>
> That was messing it up (Don't really know why) but I just "zeroed"
it:
>
>   / (?=[^`]) \[(.+?)\] /x
>
> And that did the trick.

Thats because [^`] will match 'a single character that is not `'.
When you did the zero-width lookahead, you made into 'possibly a
character, so long as it's not ` '.

Hope this makes sense :-)