what is a regex to find any text that has ‘abc’ but does not have a ‘\’ before it. so it should match ‘jfdgabc’ but not ‘asd\abc’. basically so its not escaped.
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what is a regex to find any text that has ‘abc’ but does not have a ‘\’ before it. so it should match ‘jfdgabc’ but not ‘asd\abc’. basically so its not escaped.
Use:
This is a negative lookbehind. Basically this is saying: find me the string “abc” that is not preceded by a backslash.
The one problem with this is that if you want to allow escaping of backslashes. For example:
(ie the backslash is escaped) then it gets a little trickier.