var re = /(?=(..|^.?)(ll))/g
// matches empty string position
// whenever this position is followed by
// a string of length equal or inferior (in case of "^")
// to "lookbehind" value
// + actual value we would want to match
, str = "Fall ball bill balll llama"
, str_done = str
, len_difference = 0
, doer = function (where_in_str, to_replace)
{
str_done = str_done.slice(0, where_in_str + len_difference)
+ "[match]"
+ str_done.slice(where_in_str + len_difference + to_replace.length)
len_difference = str_done.length - str.length
/* if str smaller:
len_difference will be positive
else will be negative
*/
} /* the actual function that would do whatever we want to do
with the matches;
this above is only an example from Jason's */
/* function input of .replace(),
only there to test the value of $behind
and if negative, call doer() with interesting parameters */
, checker = function ($match, $behind, $after, $where, $str)
{
if ($behind !== "ba")
doer
(
$where + $behind.length
, $after
/* one will choose the interesting arguments
to give to the doer, it's only an example */
)
return $match // empty string anyhow, but well
}
str.replace(re, checker)
console.log(str_done)
function TestSORegEx() {
var s = "Donald Trump doesn't like jam, but Homer Simpson does.";
var reg = /(?![abcdefg])(.{1})(m)/gm;
var out = "Matches and groups of the regex " +
"/(?![abcdefg])(.{1})(m)/gm in \ns = \"" + s + "\"";
var match = reg.exec(s);
while(match) {
var start = match.index + match[1].length;
out += "\nWhole match: " + match[0] + ", starts at: " + match.index
+ ". Desired match: " + match[2] + ", starts at: " + start + ".";
match = reg.exec(s);
}
out += "\nResulting string after statement s.replace(reg, \"$1*$2*\")\n"
+ s.replace(reg, "$1*$2*");
alert(out);
}