[pmwiki-devel] another regex pattern question

[Peter Bowers]

On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 12:58 PM, Hans<design5 at softflow.co.uk> wrote:
>
> PS: this simpler pattern did not work:
>
> /\[([@=])(.*?)($pat)(.*?)\1\]/
>
...

Try this:

    /\\[([@])(?:[^@]|@(?!]))*$pat(?:[^@]|@(?!]))@]/

Unfortunately, once again I can't generalize it to match both the
[@...@] and the [=...=] in the same pattern.  I just can't figure out
how to match ([@=]) and later negate it in a character class like
[^\1].

-Peter