How can I write a Regular Expression to match,
a string which does not contain the underscore "_".
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finnw
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Vikrant Chaudhary
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I actually meant this - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1873436 – Vikrant Chaudhary Dec 09 '09 at 13:24
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/^[^_]*$/
The [^] syntax means "do not include any of these characters".
Rob Di Marco
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That was simple. What was I thinking? Actually this was a simplification of a large regular expression problem, whose partial answer I found here - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1240674/ I guess I over simplified it while trying to isolate the problem. And couldn't find this simple answer in the mess. Anyway, thanks for enlightening. – Vikrant Chaudhary Aug 13 '09 at 03:57
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To match a character that is not an underscore you'd use [^_] (the ^ means "not"). So to match a whole string you'd do something like this:
/[^_]+/
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