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What language?<br />
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What is PCRE?<br />
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Python.<br />
PCRE = PERL Compatable Regular Expressions<br />
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Thank you for your time,<br />
Arrummzen
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Python.
PCRE = PERL Compatable Regular Expressions

Thank you for your time,
Arrummzen

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In Python - re.compile ( '(\\w+)\\b(?!\s*\\()' )<br />
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What is this ?! all about? Im not sure what you are doing there. It works though.<br />
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Thank you for your time,<br />
Arrummzen
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In Python - re.compile ( '(\\w+)\\b(?!\s*\\()' )

What is this ?! all about? Im not sure what you are doing there. It works though.

Thank you for your time,
Arrummzen

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&quot;(?!pattern)&quot;<br />
&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;A zero-width negative look-ahead assertion. &nbsp;For example<br />
&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&quot;/foo(?!bar)/&quot; matches any occurrence of &quot;foo&quot; that isn't<br />
&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;followed by &quot;bar&quot;. &nbsp;
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"(?!pattern)"
                 A zero-width negative look-ahead assertion.  For example
                 "/foo(?!bar)/" matches any occurrence of "foo" that isn't
                 followed by "bar".  

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I am very sorry it has taken me so long to close this question. <br />
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Thank you for your time,<br />
Arrummzen
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I am very sorry it has taken me so long to close this question.

Thank you for your time,
Arrummzen

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I need to make a PCRE, that will match any alpha string that is followed is is not followed by a parenthese.<br />
So for<br />
a = b + c * sin ( x )<br />
match<br />
a<br />
b<br />
c<br />
x<br />
but <br />
not<br />
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It should also match multi character terms -<br />
answer = variable + function ( Number )<br />
for the above, match-<br />
Answer<br />
variable<br />
Number<br />
but not<br />
function<br />
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How would I do this?<br />
<br />
Thank you for your time,<br />
Arrummzen
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I need to make a PCRE, that will match any alpha string that is followed is is not followed by a parenthese.
So for
a = b + c * sin ( x )
match
a
b
c
x
but 
not

It should also match multi character terms -
answer = variable + function ( Number )
for the above, match-
Answer
variable
Number
but not
function

How would I do this?

Thank you for your time,
Arrummzen

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A regular expression ("regex") is a sequence of characters that define a search pattern, mainly for use in pattern matching with strings, or string matching, i.e. "find and replace"-like operations. Regular expression processors are found in several search engines, search and replace dialogs of several word processors and text editors, and in the command lines of text processing utilities, such as sed and AWK. Many programming languages provide regular expression capabilities, some built-in, for example Perl, JavaScript, Ruby, AWK, and Tcl, and others via a standard library, for example .NET languages, Java, Python and C++ (since C++11). Most other languages offer regular expressions via a library.