In the following example I'm trying to exclude any form of Exception Handler but need to find just the word Exception.
Here is what I came up with but it seems to find all Exceptions 
use strict;
use warnings;


while(<DATA>) {

    chomp;

    if ( /((?!Exception\s+Handler|ExceptionHandler).)*Exception/i ) {
    print "FOUND : $_\n";
    } 
}

__DATA__
Line1: Extension:  name="Exception Handler" point="ClientDebugGroupExt
+ension" className="com.foo.bar.pluginfwk.extensions.DefaultDebugGroup
+Extension" instance=Not created params:( packages="com.foo.bar.common
+.ExceptionHandler;" level="Verbose" description="User interface unhan
+dled exception handler" )
Line2: java.net.SocketException: Software caused connection abort: rec
+v failed
Line3: com.mysql.jdbc.CommunicationsException
Line4: MESSAGE: Communications link failure due to underlying exceptio
+n:

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I would expect this script to find lines 2,3,4
Any idea what I'm missing?
Thanks

In reply to regex help needed by Anonymous Monk

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