Regex to strings that end with a particular substring

Question

I'm trying to use regex to find all instances of a word "foo" that doesn't end with ".bar".

For example:

foo foo1 foo.bar

In the example above, I want "foo" and "foo1", but not "foo.bar". Further, I'm looking to do this using the regex capabilities of Notepad++ and am unsure of the proper syntax.

edi_allen · Accepted Answer · 2013-10-18 21:55:24Z

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You can try this regex. It uses a negative lookahead to disallow the string foo from matching when followed by the string .bar.

\bfoo(?!\.bar)

edited Oct 18, 2013 at 21:55

answered Oct 18, 2013 at 21:47

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