I can’t figure out how to match comments but not HTML hex in regex. For example I want the script to match
#I'm a comment, yes I am
but not
#FF33AF
I can’t figure out how to match comments but not HTML hex in regex.
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I can’t figure out how to match comments but not HTML hex in regex. For example I want the script to match
#I'm a comment, yes I am
but not
#FF33AF
You could use negative lookahead. From the python documentation:
(?!…)
Matches if … doesn’t match next. This is a negative lookahead assertion. For example, Isaac (?!Asimov) will match ‘Isaac ‘ only if it’s not followed by ‘Asimov’.