In my Javascript code, this regex /(?<=/)([^#]+)(?=#*)/ works fine in Chrome, but in safari, I get:
Invalid regular expression: invalid group specifier name
Any ideas?
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Answer
Looks like Safari doesn’t support lookbehind yet (that is, your (?<=/)). One alternative would be to put the / that comes before in a non-captured group, and then extract only the first group (the content after the / and before the #).
/(?:/)([^#]+)(?=#*)/
Also, (?=#*) is odd – you probably want to lookahead for something (such as # or the end of the string), rather than a * quantifier (zero or more occurrences of #). It might be better to use something like
/(?:/)([^#]+)(?=#|$)/
or just omit the lookahead entirely (because the ([^#]+) is greedy), depending on your circumstances.