On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 05:07:44AM +0100, Fred Appelman wrote:
> Gary Franks schreef:
> >I am new to grep and loving what I can do with it. Of course, until I 
> >get stumped.
> >I can't find in the BBEdit Grep help how to exclude a word.
> >I am trying to find all lines in a document that do not include the 
> >word "foo".
> >
> There is no regular expression to do what you describe.

Well, that's not quite true:

^(?:(?!foo).)*$

Nonetheless, it's easier to use Process Lines Containing, which has an
option to behave just like `grep -v`.

Ronald

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