From: hemant <gethemant@...>
Date: 2006-12-06T15:07:28+09:00
Subject: Re: doubt with positive lookaround

On 12/6/06, James Edward Gray II <james@grayproductions.net> wrote:
> On Dec 5, 2006, at 12:58 PM, danfinnie@optonline.net wrote:
>
> > There are a few types of "lookarounds": positive lookahead,
> > negative lookahead, positve lookbehind, negative look behind.
> >
> > To use positive lookbehind, you would use (?<=...).  Ruby might be
> > interpreting ?=< as ?<=.  Try escaping the < by adding a \ before it.
>
> The regex engine in Ruby 1.8 does not support look-behind
> assertions.  The regex engine in 1.9, Oniguruma, does.


Yup James I am aware of that. I was blind enough to not see my silly mistake.



Thanks


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