regex101: Python Match Workspace

companythe literal text company (case sensitive)

\s+a Unicode whitespace character, repeated at least once

Negative Lookahead(?!$[A-Z]+:\s*[A-Z]+$)

\(the literal ( (40₁₀ / 50₈ / 28₁₆)

Character Class[A-Z]+

+matches at least one character from the set below:

A-Zone character from A (65₁₀) to Z (90₁₀) (case sensitive)

:the literal : (58₁₀ / 72₈ / 3A₁₆)

\s*a Unicode whitespace character, repeated any number of times

Character Class[A-Z]+

+matches at least one character from the set below:

A-Zone character from A (65₁₀) to Z (90₁₀) (case sensitive)

\)the literal ) (41₁₀ / 51₈ / 29₁₆)

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

Search reference

Regular Expression

company\s+(?!\([A-Z]+:\s*[A-Z]+\))

New

The company was acquired by Xerox (NYSE: XRX) for $225 million on May 6, 2014.
The company (NASDAQ:EPOC) was acquired by Athenahealth (NASDAQ:ATHN) for $293 million in cash on January 7, 2013.
The company is acquired by New Mountain Capital for $225 million through an LBO on December 18, 2015. FS Investments provided unitranche term loan financing to support the acquisition by New Mountain Capital.
The company was acquired by HTC Global Services for $97.5 million on December 18, 2014.

Regular Expressions 101

Regular Expression

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