[SOLVED][OT] help understanding a PCRE expression (CORRECTION)

[Mike Wright]

On 2/21/25 09:39, Markus Schönhaber wrote:
> 21.02.25, 18:12 +0100, Mike Wright:
> > Reading an article about a fedora kernel vulnerability regression and
> > found this PCRE expression
> > '(<= )\w+'  <--- mistake
> >
> > '(?<= )\w+' <--- actual expression
> >
> > I got the "one or more words" part but what is the meaning of the part
> > inside the parens?
>
> In the man page for pcrepattern(3) search for "Lookbehind assertions".

Danke, Markus.

I've been using RE's in scripting languages for years and had never come 
across "lookbehind assertions".

Appreciate the reference.

:m