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Regex Matching Line Not Containing the String

Chloe Bennett • • 1 min read
Regex Matching Line Not Containing the String

I'd like to select a lines with does not contain a word SCREEN. I tried the following regex (?<!SCREEN).+ but it seems not to work - selects all the lines. Why doesn't it work?

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The short answer: ^((?!SCREEN).)*$

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Another try for this case: (SCREEN){0}.*$

Hope that can help.

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