Your first capture group matches
a string of no more than 23 characters
that is followed by a word break
optionally followed by a punctuation mark
that is followed by a word break
You expect this to match
“They get rid of things” (22 characters)
Which is followed by a word break (between the letter “s” and the non-letter
“,”)
And the following punctuation mark (comma)
Which is followed be a word break — and there is the error. Neither the comma
nor the following space is a letter, so the comma is not followed by a word
break.
Instead, it matches
“They get rid of things” (22 characters)
Which is followed by a word break (between the letter “s” and the non-letter
“,”)
Not the comma, which is OK, because the punctuation mark is optional
Followed by a word break — still the same word break between “s” and “,”.
So the first capture group matches up to, but not including, the comma.
Regards,
Neil Faiman
> On Apr 8, 2025, at 5:09 AM, Otto Munters <ottomunt...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Error in regex for BBedit:
> What is wrong in this regex?
> (?=^.{42,}$)(.{,23}\b[,.:;"!?]?\b)(.*)
>
> problem: the comma is also moved with capture group 2, it should stay with
> capture group 1
>
> Example, whole sentence to be split in two parts:
> They get rid of things, very simple clothing.
>
> regex with error returns:
> 1st line: They get rid of things
> 2nd line: , very simple clothing.
>
> should be:
> 1st line: They get rid of things,
> 2nd line: very simple clothing.
>
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