Why won't this work? (lemmy.nz)

submitted 1 year ago by sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al to c/regex@programming.dev

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(?<!\d)\d+\.\d+ should match the numbers at the end of the lines and yet it won't. What am I doing wrong?

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[-] bizdelnick@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Sorry, I have no clue.

What do you use to apply your regex? Programming language, library, command line tool etc.

there’s a random number at the end of some of the lines, I’m trying to match that.

Is it decimal? One digit or multiple digits? Natural, rational?

[-] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 1 points 1 year ago

Sorry it took so long to get back to you, I was trying to find a type of some sort.

The app offers this https://github.com/gedoor/legado/blob/master/app/src/main/assets/web/help/md/regexHelp.md Which I hope you find fruitful as an indication.

What do you use to apply your regex?

An ePub Reader called Legado

Is it decimal? One digit or multiple digits? Natural, rational?

In the screenshot above, you can see it differs. I feel like I'm not doing your kindness justice with my sparse information, sorry! 🥺

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