> irb(main):006:0> s.gsub( /\b([a-z]) (?=[a-z]\b)/i, '\\1' )
> => "A long cat and a quick mouse met oj simpson on the tcp stack"this is exactly what I need.
Is it possible to rewrite it without using lookahead (?=subexp) ?
I don't think so, unless you have a positive lookbehind instead.
Why don't you want the lookahead? Are you actually using this regexp
with a language other than Ruby?
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