regex pattern(javascript and pcre)
<a href="(?<!#).*".*>(.*)<\/a>
This pattern should not select any html anchor tag of which the href attribute starts with a # symbol. But it matches the following code
<a href="#team">Team</a>
What am I doing wrong here?
Look-arounds are zero-width, meaning they don't consume any characters, making them only useful at the start and end of a pattern. #team is not preceded by #, so the first .* matches #team.
The way to write what you want is "[^#].*". This means the first character in the quotes must not be #. One caveat here is that it will not match empty strings, but that's easy enough to add like so: "([^#].*)?".
