what's causing this lookahead to fail?

[bitt3n]

in the following, I want put only 'Capitalized Words' into a group.

 

text="ALL CAPITAL LETTERS - Capitalized Words"

 

the best way to do it seems to use the logic: "match everything until the following character is lowercase, then put the current and following characters in a group, stopping at the final quotation mark"

 

to do this I've tried

 

text="(.(?![a-z]))+(?<mygroup>[^"]+)"

 

which I understand to mean "match at least one of anything that isn't followed by a lowercase character, then make the group"

 

however I've clearly screwed something up. What did I do wrong?

[.josh]

maybe need to rephrase or give more explanation or more context or somethin' because as-is, your regex works, in that you get "Capitalized Words" in "mygroup"

 

Array
(
    [0] => text="ALL CAPITAL LETTERS - Capitalized Words"
    [1] =>  
    [mygroup] => Capitalized Words
    [2] => Capitalized Words
)

[bitt3n]

ha I realized I forgot to remove the case insensitive modifier I was using for another part of the regex, cosmic level idiocy

[bitt3n]

edit: double post