Re^3: RegEx - match pattern not followed by literal

I don't think a negative look ahead will work - .*(?!,v) will still match foo,v since the .* can just suck up the ,v

Tom Melly, tom@tomandlu.co.uk

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Re^4: RegEx - match pattern not followed by literal by johngg (Canon) on Oct 12, 2006 at 15:47 UTC
Yes, perhaps that needs to be non-greedy like `(?!.?,v$)` but note that the `.?` is inside the assertion. Cheers, JohnGG	[reply] [d/l] [select]