Why won't this work? (lazysoci.al)

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(?<!\d)\d+\.\d+ should match the numbers at the end of the lines and yet it won't. What am I doing wrong?

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[-] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

surround the “\d+.” with a question mark group?

If you're expecting decimals, that's the preferred solution:

(?<!\d)(\d+\.)?\d+(?=\s*$)

Otherwise you could do simply

(?<!\d)\d+(?=\s*$)

I added the lookahead (?=\s*$) to match digits at the end of the line only with possible trailing spaces.

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