Regular Expressions 101

Explanation

Pro

^start of line

Negative Lookahead(?!Mr)

Mrthe literal text Mr (case sensitive)

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

Group 1(Approved)

Approvedthe literal text Approved (case sensitive)

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

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

Match Information

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Quick Reference

25 tokens

Regular Expression

^(?!Mr).*(Approved).*

New

Abc your request is Approved

Mr. Abc your request is Approved.

In above statement if word 'Approved' comes in sentence it should select whole sentence.

Abc your request is Approved.

Substitution

Abc your request is Approved

Mr. Abc your request is Approved.

In above statement if word 'Approved' comes in sentence it should select whole sentence.

Abc your request is Approved.