What is the regular expression that would find all instances of the string “&”, but not if the instance is the prefix of the string “ ”.
For example, it would match the “&” in “John & Paul”, but not the “&” in “John Paul”.
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What is the regular expression that would find all instances of the string “&”, but not if the instance is the prefix of the string “ ”.
For example, it would match the “&” in “John & Paul”, but not the “&” in “John Paul”.
What you’re looking for is a negative lookahead (see this answer as well). The syntax would generally be something like:
Which matches any ampersand not followed by
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