Regular Expressions 101

Explanation

Pro

^start of line

Negative Lookahead(?!.*(?:google_csv|exclude_me_too))

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

Non-Capturing Group(?:google_csv|exclude_me_too)

1st Alternativegoogle_csv

google_csvthe literal text google_csv (case sensitive)

2nd Alternativeexclude_me_too

exclude_me_toothe literal text exclude_me_too (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

Match Information

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Quick Reference

25 tokens

Regular Expression

^(?!.*(?:google_csv|exclude_me_too)).*$

/mnt/01_OPERATIONS/sandbox/google_csv/data/google
/mnt/01_OPERATIONS/sandbox/googlde_csv/data/google
/mnt/01_OPERATIONS/sandbox/exclude_me_too/data/google
/mnt/01_OPERATIONS/sandbox/excludeo/data/google