Hi All
Requesting help on this one. I am working on a JAVA based tool 'webMethods' which provides built-in functionality to replace char/string from a given input, it also excepts RegEx to match the search string.
My requirement to create a RegEx which can be supplied to the above built-in functionality to match any string (that can contain new lines and other white space characters) only if it doesnt have a particular word say BRANCH.
Examples of positive matches can be-

• The bank of America.
• The #123 bank.
• @$%# (*%&.

Examples of negative matches can be-

• BRANCH
• The #123 BRANCH of this bank.
• This is the last BRANCH.
• BRANCH BRANCH

I tried using the expression [\s\S\s]*(?!BRANCH)[\s\S\s]*, but this does'nt work for all the scenarios.

Thanks !!

Well, not to ask a silly question, but...

Why not simply BRANCH for the RegExp and then just test for *NOT* matching instead of for matching in the Java code????