[SOLVED] Doesn't begin or end with these characters..

[Azu]

Hello.. I am trying to get my regex to only work if the beginning or ending is not a certain character. The problem is that when I try to do this, and it is not that character, it deletes that character..

 

Is there a way to make it just CHECK if something is true, instead of deleting it and putting it into a regex variable?

 

'[^"<>]Stuff[^"<>]'/i

[rajivgonsalves]

some code your using would be helpful are you using preg_replace ?

[Azu]

Yes. Although it should work with any regex function so I didn't know it mattered, sorry.

 

Here is the code '[^"<>]Stuff[^"<>]'/i

 

These [^"<>] are deleting a character how do I stop this? I want these to read only, not modify the string in any way at all.

[rajivgonsalves]

if you give me an example maybe I could help I don't know what you want to do with this regexp (Sorry a little slow today)

[Azu]

I am trying to get my regex to only work if the beginning or ending is not a certain character.

 

Here is an example

'[^"<>]Stuff[^"<>]'/i

[effigy]

Here is an example

'[^"<>]Stuff[^"<>]'/i

 

That's a pattern--not an example.

 

Try lookarounds.

[Azu]

Thank you that is exactly what I was looking for

 

BTW here's an example; I only want to match something that isn't in quotes or braces.

[Azu]

Nevermind it's not working at all.. even when I tell it to return false if there is ANY character before or after it, it STILL goes through..

 

(?<!.)Stuff(?!.)

 

 

x_x please help...

[effigy]

Please post your code which shows:

 

1. The input data.

2. The code parsing this data.

3. The (incorrect) result, and the result that is desired.

[Azu]

Ugh I'm sorry nevermind. I edited the wrong file lol

Working perfect now.

 

I should go to bed now, good night.. ^^