Regex Help

[C0D312]

Unfortunately, I never really took the time to learn regex. So, I need some help for my plugin.

I have a string that I know exists in a file. I need a regular expression that returns the word preceding my string. Anyone have a suggestion?

[facelessuser]

I am far from an expert in regex, but I have found the more you read about it and try to use it, the better you get.

I don't know if this is perfect, but it is trying to find a word that is followed by a string, but that word is also not followed by an new line to make sure the string is on the same line as the preceding word.

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([\w]+)(?=(?![\n\r]+)\s*somestring)

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There are probably a number of different ways to do this.

[C0D312]

Finally managed to get my plugin working. Thanks again for your help.