positive lookbehind

English

Etymology

positive +‎ lookbehind

Noun

positive lookbehind (countable and uncountable, plural positive lookbehinds)

(regular expressions) The analysis of the preceding characters presence before the regular expression is matched (symbol: ?<=).

Hypernyms

lookaround
- lookbehind

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