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Reputation: 1185

Regular expression to find lines not containing a certain word

I would like to find all occurrences of the below pattern.

import com.pack1.pack2.blah1.className1 ;
import com.pack1.pack2.blah2.className2 ;
import com.pack1.DifferentPackage.blah3.className3 ;

I want to find all import statements which will match the third line.

Something like below

import com.pack1.!(pack2).*

I tried a few examples from tutorials - but couldn't achieve the objective.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 226

Answers (1)

hwnd
hwnd

Reputation: 70732

You are looking for a Negative Lookahead here.

import com\.pack1\.(?!pack2\b).*

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The word boundary \b asserts that on one side there is a word character, and on the other side there is not. Also since you state you are looking for lines, you may want to add beginning of string ^ and end of string $ anchors.

^import com\.pack1\.(?!pack2\b).*$

Upvotes: 4

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