只有在负面前瞻和Lookbehind失败时才匹配

Question

我正在尝试创建一个正则表达式，用于检查句子中是否存在单词，当且仅当它没有用单引号括起来时。

我尝试了不同的正则表达式，例如：

(?<!' )(?i:THEN)|(?i:THEN)(?! ')

匹配＆＃39;然后＆＃39; | ＆＃39;然后＆＃39;，这不应该匹配。

(?<!' )(?i:THEN)(?! ') or (?<!(' ))(?i:THEN)|(?i:THEN)(?!( '))

匹配＆＃39;然后＆＃39;哪个不匹配

我真的被困住，因为我不知道哪个Regex有效。我也试过其他正则表达但它无法匹配：

' then I jumped.
He said then 'Wow'.

非常感谢一些意见！

谢谢！

Answer 1

描述

此正则表达式将匹配未被引号括起的单词then。

\bTHEN\b(?<!'\s*THEN(?=\s*'))

有些语言不允许在外观内部进行\s?或\s*等交替。因此，如果您正在使用其中一种语言，那么您需要获得有关测试空间的切割器。

\bTHEN\b(?<!'\sTHEN(?=\s'))(?<!'THEN(?='))

实施例

现场演示

https://regex101.com/r/gS4zU8/1

then             matched
'then            matched
then'            matched
'then'
' then           matched
then '           matched
' then '
' then I jumped.       matched
He said then 'Wow'.    matched
SthenS

解释

NODE                     EXPLANATION
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  \b                       the boundary between a word char (\w) and
                           something that is not a word char
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  THEN                     'THEN'
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  \b                       the boundary between a word char (\w) and
                           something that is not a word char
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  (?<!                     look behind to see if there is not:
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    '                        '\''
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    \s                       whitespace (\n, \r, \t, \f, and " ")
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    THEN                     'THEN'
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    (?=                      look ahead to see if there is:
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      \s                       whitespace (\n, \r, \t, \f, and " ")
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      '                        '\''
----------------------------------------------------------------------
    )                        end of look-ahead
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  )                        end of look-behind
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  (?<!                     look behind to see if there is not:
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    'THEN                    '\'THEN'
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    (?=                      look ahead to see if there is:
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      '                        '\''
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    )                        end of look-ahead
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  )                        end of look-behind
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