Re: [FWP] Regex for the last vowel/diphthong in a word

[Ronald J Kimball <rjk@linguist.dartmouth.edu>]

On Mon, Aug 02, 1999 at 05:40:58PM -0400, Stevie Strickland wrote:
> > Maybe something with a negative lookahead... (coworker suggested this)
> > 
> > /([aou]|au)(?=[^aou]*$)/
> 
> Hmmmm... that looks good, I was looking at negative lookaheads, myself,
> but I wasn't *too* sure on how to use them... I see, they're just what
> would be next in the regex without actually using it (so the
> /$accent{$1}$2/ in my s/// could just be /$accent{$1}/... thanks :)

Oops, I should have caught that in my response...  That's a positive
lookahead, not a negative lookahead.  Negative lookahead is (?!re).

Positive is what you want there, just the wrong name for it was used.

Ronald

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