Regular expression - match string containing a but not a and b

[gfrith]

Hi,

A quick regex question which I've worked around for the time being,
but would like an answer to if anyone can help.

I want to match on all strings which end _id, but not those ending
row_id.

Some sample strings:

row_id
parent_id
person_id
person

I'd like to match all but the 1st and last.

I've tried many variants, including

preg_match('/(row)\w{0}_id$/',$subject);
preg_match('/(row){0}_id$/',$subject);
preg_match('/(?!row)_id$/',$subject);

None work correctly. As I say I've worked around this issue as I have
very little time, but would like to know the proper solution.

Thanks in advance. Greg.

[Michael Fesser]

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>I want to match on all strings which end _id, but not those ending
row_id.

Some sample strings:

row_id
parent_id
person_id
person

I'd like to match all but the 1st and last.

I've tried many variants, including

preg_match('/(row)\w{0}_id$/',$subject);
preg_match('/(row){0}_id$/',$subject);
preg_match('/(?!row)_id$/',$subject);

The last one was very close:

preg_match('/(?<!row)_id$/', $subject);

Notice the '<' to make it a negative look-behind assertion instead of
negative look-ahead.

Micha

[P Pulkkinen]

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Hi,
A quick regex question which I've worked around for the time being,
but would like an answer to if anyone can help.
I want to match on all strings which end _id, but not those ending
row_id.
Some sample strings:
row_id
parent_id
person_id
person

Somebody answered from the regex point of view, which is not my expertise,
but i ask: do you really need regex to do this, especially if you feel they
are difficult? Can you just applie string finding functions? End is "_id"
but end is not " row_id", that makes two conditions, or do i miss something?

[gfrith]

On Feb 6, 2:50 pm, "P Pulkkinen"
<snip>

Somebody answered from the regex point of view, which is not my expertise,
but i ask: do you really need regex to do this, especially if you feel they
are difficult? Can you just applie string finding functions? End is "_id"
but end is not " row_id", that makes two conditions, or do i miss something?

Hi, sorry for not getting back to the thread earlier. Yes indeed this
could be done with two conditions on a string match.

It was simply the regex challenge! I have a perl project coming up
really soon in which I think I'll be needing to do a lot of regex
work, so just wanted to get some practice in.

Thanks for the replies everyone!

[gfrith]

On Feb 6, 1:46 pm, Michael Fesser <[e-mail] wrote:

.oO(gfr...@gmai l.com)

I want to match on all strings which end _id, but not those ending
row_id.

Some sample strings:

row_id
parent_id
person_id
person

I'd like to match all but the 1st and last.

I've tried many variants, including

preg_match('/(row)\w{0}_id$/',$subject);
preg_match('/(row){0}_id$/',$subject);
preg_match('/(?!row)_id$/',$subject);

The last one was very close:

preg_match('/(?<!row)_id$/', $subject);

Notice the '<' to make it a negative look-behind assertion instead of
negative look-ahead.

Micha

That did the trick, thanks Micha!