Re: How to exclude a sequence of characters

> 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