I have text:
test: [ABCD]
test: foobar
test: [ABCD]
And I’ve wrote this regex:
test:\s+(?!\[ABCD)
So basicaly I want to find any occurence where test: is NOT followed by [ABCD and there can be any amount of whitespace between the two.
So for the first two examples it works as intended but I have problem with the third one: it looks like because of this part: (?!\[ABCD) the \s+ is not matching last space if there are more than one. Why is that and how to solve it? I want to third example bahave just like frist one. Screenshot from regex101 to illustrate the issue:
>Solution :
You have one good answer to match the entire line if it follows the criteria, but based on this:
I want to find any occurence where "test:" is NOT followed by "[ABCD" and there can be any amount of whitespace between the two.
If you want to only match the "test:" part, you can just move the whitespace character into the negative look-ahead on what you have.
test:(?!\s+\[ABCD)
Screenshot from regex101 using your example phrases:
