Regular Expressions 101

Pro

^start of line

Negative Lookahead(?!.*details\.cfm)

.*any character (except for line terminators), repeated any number of times

detailsthe literal text details (case sensitive)

\.the literal . (46₁₀ / 56₈ / 2E₁₆)

cfmthe literal text cfm (case sensitive)

.*any character (except for line terminators), repeated any number of times

selector=sizethe literal text selector=size (case sensitive)

.*any character (except for line terminators), repeated any number of times

$end of line

Global pattern flags

g modifier: global. Finds all matches instead of stopping after the first

m modifier: multiline. Causes ^ and $ to match the start and end of each line, not only the start and end of the string

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25 tokens

Regular Expression

^(?!.*details\.cfm).*selector=size.*$

New

http://www.anydotcom.com/test/search.cfm?metric=blah&abcselector=size&value=1
http://www.anydotcom.com/test/search.cfm?metric=blah2&selector=style&value=1
http://www.anydotcom.com/test/search.cfm?metric=blah3&selector=sizeabc&value=1
http://www.anydotcom.com/test/details.cfm?metric=blah&selector=size&value=1