Regular Expressions 101

Pro

^start of line

/support/the literal text /support/ (case sensitive)

Negative Lookahead(?!.*software_updates)

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

software_updatesthe literal text software_updates (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

^/support/(?!.*software_updates).*$

New

/support/software_updates/
/support/foo/software_updates/
/support/software_updates/foo/

/support/foo/

/support/software_updates/
/support/foo/software_updates/
/support/software_updates/foo/

/support/foo/