lookbehind
nounEtymology Deverbal from look behind.
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The analysis of the preceding characters before the regular expression is matched.
Regular expressions
- [There] are times when it's useful to be able to look to the left of the current position being considered to see what the past had to say about a particular pattern. That is the purpose of lookbehinds.2004, Mehran Habibi, Java Regular Expressions: Taming the java.util.regex Engine:
- Hypernyms
- lookaround
- Hyponyms
- negative lookbehind, positive lookbehind