Positive and negative lookahead

[dovidkopel]

For complex patterns like:
((?!000)(?!666)(?:[0-6]\\d{2}|7[0-2][0-9]|73[0-3]|7[5-6][0-9]|77[0-2]))-((?!00)\\d{2})-((?!0000)\\d{4})

the ?! character seem to be interpreted literally, it would be nice to have support for all of the supported characters that Java support (https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/util/regex/Pattern.html)

[mifmif]

Hi,
Unfortunately the used library (automaton) has some limitations, one of them is that it doesn't support the look-ahead and look-behind assertions . So they will not be interpreted as assertion in your regular expression.