Match all instances of a character preceded by '/'

Question

for example, I might have the string

/zombie nimble zombie quick
Plants vs Zombies reference

and I want to match every 'e' but only from the phrase "zombie nimble zombie quick", as it is preceded by a forward slash.

I can get the contents of the string preceded by the forward slash fairly easily with \/.*.
I can also match the first instance of 'e' in the correct string with \/.*?\Ke

But I want to match every instance of 'e' in the correct string in a way that's friendly for VSCode syntax highlighting, which afaik is the .NET flavour

-Jam

Answer 1

If you are using PCRE, you may try the following regex:

^(?!\/).*(*SKIP)(*F)|e

• ^(?!\/).* a line doesn't start with a /
• (*SKIP)(*F) skips the consumed text so far, which is the entire line
• | or
• e matches e, if the e didn't get skipped, means it's inside a line that starts with /

See the test cases

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Edit

Thanks for Jan's advice.

If the / doen't always start from the beginning of a line, you may try

^[^\/]*(*SKIP)(*F)|e

See the test cases

Answer 2

Using PCRE you could go for

(?:\G(?!\A)|/)[^e\n]*\Ke

See a demo on regex101.com.