Re: How to exclude a sequence of characters

In message <[email protected]>, "Thomas Wiedmann" writes:
>Example: Trying to get all matches of the pattern 'test' but excluding all 
>matches of the pattern '-end', i. e. if the text contains 'test-end' this 
>text location should not be matched.
>
>By which regular expression can this search condition be realized?

It sounds like you want to use a zero-width negative lookahead assertion.
For example:
   test(?!-end)

I don't believe this is something Jakarta regexp supports.  oro and
java.util.regex implement zero-width negative lookahead assertions.
You should probably use java.util.regex.

daniel