// include the latest version of the regex crate in your Cargo.toml
extern crate regex;
use regex::Regex;
fn main() {
let regex = Regex::new(r"(?mi)(?<!\<a\shref)my(?!.*\<\/a\>)").unwrap();
let string = "This is a sample my text <a href=\"https://test.com\">test my stuff</a> with my inside <a href=\"https://mytest.com\">test me</a> brackets and my outside brackets oh my . <a href=\"https://test.com\">test my stuff</a> not sure why my instances of my before the last lookahead doesnt work?
Intent: I have an FAQ that uses js to highlight words on the page by letter as you type. I need to ignore the HREF entries in the replace function as the injection of a class to highlight the typed letters/words replaced within the HREF messing up the link.
Incorrectly Ignoring position 18, 76, 141, 164
Correctly ignoring position 58, 104 and 201
Correctly finding position 227, 242";
// result will be an iterator over tuples containing the start and end indices for each match in the string
let result = regex.captures_iter(string);
for mat in result {
println!("{:?}", mat);
}
}
Please keep in mind that these code samples are automatically generated and are not guaranteed to work. If you find any syntax errors, feel free to submit a bug report. For a full regex reference for Rust, please visit: https://docs.rs/regex/latest/regex/