user1990903
Reputation: 1
Regular Expression check for no string
I want to find from a list of strings (all captial letters) that contains "NAME", but before and after the name I don't want any characters. So I tried this regex "[^A-Z]NAME[^A-Z]. But the string that are like "NAME", or "NAME " can not be matched, I thought the [^A-Z] just check as long they are not in these character, and nothing would also be OK. Did I miss something here?
Chris
Upvotes: 0
Views: 76
Answers (1)
Joseph Silber
Reputation: 219938
Try using a word boundry:
\bNAME\b
Here's a demo: http://regexr.com?33f1d
Upvotes: 1
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