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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