$re = '/(?<=\s)(?!\S*level[0-9])[^\s#*]+(?=\s)/';
$str = 'How to write regex which find word (without whitespace) that doesn\'t contain some chars (like * or #) and sentence also (like level10 or level2 - it should be also regex - level[0-9]+). It will be simple for chars excluded ([^\\\\s^#^*]+) but how to exclude this \'level\' example too ?
I want to exclude chars AND level with number.
Examples:
weesdlevel3fv - shouldn\'t match because of \'level3\'
we3rlevelw4erw - should match - there is level without number
dfs3leveldfvws#3vd - shouldn\'t match - level is good, but \'#\' char appeared
level4#level levelw4_level - threat as two words because of whitespaces - only second one should match - no levels with number and no restricted chars like \'#\' or \'*\'';
preg_match_all($re, $str, $matches, PREG_SET_ORDER, 0);
// Print the entire match result
var_dump($matches);
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