Regex: Find Character Sequence But Only When Outside of Curly Braces

Asked Oct 13 '19 at 22:49

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I've been trying to wrap my head around this. I need to find a sequence of characters (any number followed by a period), but only if they are outside of a set of curly braces.

With this I can find the characters in question:

\d+\.(\.\.)?

And with this, all characters within curly braces:

\{[^\}]*\}

And this link explains how find specific character strings outside of curly braces:

Regular Expression, match characters outside curly braces { }

in the form of:

(?:specificCharacterString)\s*([A-z0-9]*)\s*=\s*"(.*)"(?![^{]*\})

But I can't seem to figure out how to apply the "number followed by period" part of the condition to the previous expression.

If anyone could help me out here it would be appreciated.

Here's the result I'm looking for with the character sequences in question bold and italicized.

1. This is the first step {1. Or you could try this step} 2. Next step {2. Or try this step instead.}

edited Oct 13 '19 at 22:59

asked Oct 13 '19 at 22:49

jwBurnside

Usually, it is used as `\d+\.(\.\.)?(?![^{}]*})` (if the braces are paired) – Wiktor Stribiżew Oct 13 '19 at 22:50
could you give an example – sam Oct 13 '19 at 23:01
@WiktorStribiżew This seems to only select the first number-dot sequence. I have updated the question with the result I expect from the expression if that helps. – jwBurnside Oct 13 '19 at 23:01
@sam Just updated with example – jwBurnside Oct 13 '19 at 23:02
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https://regex101.com/r/DL5E2h/1 – Wiktor Stribiżew Oct 13 '19 at 23:08
@WiktorStribiżew Works perfectly, thanks. If you add an answer I'll give you credit. – jwBurnside Oct 13 '19 at 23:10

Regex: Find Character Sequence But Only When Outside of Curly Braces

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