'-xyz' literal does not match the '-end' literal... if you want to
match any three-character ending you'll need something like '-...' in
the regexp
Also, I can't recall of the dash needs to be escaped outside a
square-bracket operator pair, but it might be interpreted as a range
operator here.
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 12:03 AM, Thomas Wiedmann <th...@gmx.de> wrote:
>> It sounds like you want to use a zero-width negative lookahead assertion.
>> For example:
>> test(?!-end)
>>
>> You should probably use java.util.regex.
>
> I tried the Java statements
>
> String text = "mytest-xyz";
> String pattern = ".*test(?!-end)";
> System.out.println(text.matches(pattern) ? "Ok" : "NOk");
>
> Unfortunately in this case "NOk" was returned. I thought the Java RegExp
> would support negative lookaheads; according to the javadoc it must had done
> it.
> What's the reason?
> How must the RegExp statement be written, that texts like "mytext-end" are
> not matched, because they a excluded, but a text like "mytest-xyz" is
> accepted, because it doesn't end with "-end"?
>
> Thomas Wiedmann
>
>
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