Re: regexp match string with word1 and not word2

Flyzone wrote:
On 30 Apr, 17:11, Steven Bethard <steven.beth...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

You don't need a regexp:;

I need a regexp.....i'm parsing a file with a rule-file that contains
also regexp and strings too....

Well then it seems like you might want to rethink this rule-file approach since your problem is clearly not amenable to regular expressions.

That said, here's a regexp that might work::

((?!two:).)*one((?!two:).)*

That makes a negative lookahead assertion at each character in the string.

STeVe
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