Done FSEARCH

[dmsherwood53]

it would be uaeful if /T"trxt" had a not option ie /T"text1 ! "text2" would find lext1 if & only it occured on a line
which didn't have text2

 

[Alpengreis]

MAYBE that is possible already with fsearch regex (fsearch /e""), I started a thread here about that:

Thread 'Negative lookahead with (fsearch) regex possible?'

2025-02-02

I tried to use a negative lookahead for fsearch regex (fsearch /e"") but wasn't successful till now.

Is that possible?

I tried with something like:

fsearch /e"(?!REGEX_1)REGEX_2"

... with the Ruby syntax.

So it should match only if REGEX_1 does not match; after checking REGEX_1, the search for REGEX_2 starts at the same position.

I was inspired through thread FSEARCH to try that ...

• Alpengreis
• lookahead negative
• Replies: 7
• Forum: Support

 

[dmsherwood53]

Ithink this does what I'm looking for