正则表达式匹配需求：排除方括号内内容及全重复字符序列

Got it, let's tackle this problem. Your current regex matches ABBA-style sequences (like baab or sdds) and excludes those inside square brackets, but it's incorrectly catching all-repeated strings like bbbb because it doesn't enforce that the first two captured characters are different. Here's how to fix it:

The Modified Regex #

/([a-z])([a-z])(?!\1)\2\1(?![^[]*])/

Breakdown of Changes #

Let's walk through what each part does, focusing on the key fix:

• ([a-z]): Captures the first lowercase letter into group 1.
• ([a-z]): Captures the second lowercase letter into group 2.
• (?!\1): This is the critical addition — it's a negative lookahead that ensures the character in group 2 is NOT the same as group 1. This immediately blocks cases where all four characters are identical (like bbbb).
• \2\1: Matches the same characters as group 2 followed by group 1, completing the ABBA pattern.
• (?![^[]*]): Retains your original logic to exclude sequences inside square brackets — it checks that there's no closing ] ahead without an opening [ first, ensuring the match isn't nested inside brackets.

Test Cases #

• ✅ Matches successfully: baab, sdds, xyyx, abba
• ❌ Fails to match (as intended): bbbb (all repeated characters), [baab] (inside square brackets), abca (doesn't follow the ABBA structure)

If you need to support uppercase letters too, just adjust the character class to [a-zA-Z].

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