If you want to allow that MIB can appear anywhere else other that immmediately 
after GUIDE_ you can change the regex for :

(.*)GUIDE_(?!MIB)((?!P4).)*$

Richard Lavoie

> On 2014-09-19, at 06:52, Richard Lavoie <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> As a few people already mentioned you need to anchor your pattern. Otherwise, 
> .* might match what you want to exclude and attempt the match after it, 
> resulting in an unwanted result.
> 
> What your regx is doing in words is this:
> 
> (.*) match anywhere
> GUIDE_ : normal text match
> (?!MIB) : immediately not followed by MIB
> (.*) : match anywhere
> (?!P4) : not followed by P4
> 
> Now, what you want to do if MIB and P4 can be anywhere after GUIDE_ is to 
> match every character and the make sure it is not followed by any of those, 
> up to the end. The regex for that would be:
> 
> (.*)GUIDE_(?:(?!MIB)(?!P4).)*$
> 
> The fancy part at the end translates into :
> 
> Make sure the following text is neither MIB or P4 when you try to match the 
> next char, up to the end of string. it does not make a distinction weither 
> MIB comes before or after P4. It will make sure any of those is not after 
> GUIDE_
> 
> Richard Lavoie
> 
>> On 2014-09-19, at 03:38, Jan Seidel <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I have a weird issue with a regular expression.
>> Hopefully you can help me out here.
>> 
>> I have a RegEx like (.*)GUIDE_(?!MIB)(.*)(?!P4)
>> It should, as far as I can tell, list all jobs containing GUIDE but exclude 
>> GUIDE jobs with a MIB in the middle or P4 at the end of the project name, 
>> right?
>> 
>> My problem here is, that jobs with a P4 at the end still are listed :(
>> 
>> I have for testing purposes tried all kind of RegEx that crossed my mind but 
>> without any success.
>> Later I tried just to exclude job names with a P4 at the end. No joy
>> 
>> The RegEx I used was: (.*)GUIDE_(.*)(?!P4)
>> The list is then completely emtpy.
>> 
>> Can someone tell me where I glitch?
>> 
>> Cheers
>> Jan
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