Re: positive lookbehind

On Thu, 23 Apr 2015 at 10:46am +0200, Christian Brabandt wrote:

> Well, at least, this is consistent with both regexp engines ;)
>
> I think the problem is, that the '^' prevents a match of the following word.

Apparently this is the case. I'm wondering why.

> I am not sure, why this happens, or if this is expected, but what seems to
> work
> is to include the '^' into the capturing group, e.g.
>
> /\(^\s*\)\@<=\w\+
>
> That works.

That's true.

Thanks, Christian.

Best,
Claus