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I have a Matlab project which I'm working on in the OSX editor TextMate. I need to find all instances of a certain word, let's say it's "foo", that is not either preceded by a "." or succeeded by a "/".
However, I cannot find any way to search for regular expressions that are negatively defined like this. Does anyone know if it is possible to search for something like "A preceded by anything other than B"?
(TextMate uses the Oniguruma regular expression library by K. Kosako.)
\b(?:(T)|t)own(s?)\b → (?1:\u)village$2
(And uncheck ignore case in the dialog)
\b = word boundary(?:) = non-capturing group(?1:\u) = if captured group 1 then convert next character to uppercasePerhaps I'm missing something, but for some reason I wasn't able to do this in a single search/replace operation:
Before:
Replace empty string (format Heading 2) with "## ^& ##" (no formatting):
After first replace:
Replace "^p ##" (no formatting) with " ##^p" (no formatting) (be aware that there is a space at the beginning of the replace string!):
After second replace:
Best Answer
You want to use this bit of the syntax:
In your case,
(?<!\.)foo(?!/)