I want to build a regex that will catch inside a text all strings (start and finish with "/') that are not inside square brackets and are not inside the patterns name()/city()/number()
This is what I got for now:
/(?<![name|city|number]\(|\[)(["'])[^\)|^\]] ?(?<!\\)\1/g
it works OK but not the best. For example: it doens't catch the strings inside a() and n(), although I want the regex to catch it.
The problem is here:
[name|city|number]
It use it as 'or' of single characters and not as 'or' of words like I want it to be.
How can I fix my regex to behave like I want without ruin the rest of it?
CodePudding user response：
Making each of those into it's own negative lookbehind seems to do the trick
(?<!name\(|\[)(?<!city\(|\[)(?<!number\(|\[)(["'])[^\)|^\]] ?(?<!\\)\1