Regex to match only strings that don't contain specific character

Question

Looking to write some regex to match only the strings in the follow that don't contain a pipe.

4 Canciones: No. 2, Dices que no la quieres
5 Canciones canciones para niños: No. 1, Balada
Spanish; Castilian | es
Spanish; Castilian | es
El molinero
Spanish; Castilian | es

So far I've got

^(?!\|).+

But it simply matches the first string and stops after that.

Looking for all advice. Thanks!

`^[^|]+$` but this is a duplicate of http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4105956 — logi-kal, May 04 '17 at 15:32
Possible duplicate of [Regex - Does not contain certain Characters](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4105956/regex-does-not-contain-certain-characters) — logi-kal, May 04 '17 at 15:32

Shaido · Answer 1 · 2017-05-04T19:09:40.973

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You can loop over each line and keep those that match. The regex

^(?!.*\|).+

should work for your examples.

edited May 04 '17 at 19:09

answered May 04 '17 at 15:35

Shaido

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`^[^|]+$` is sufficient. Your solution uses a double parsing. – logi-kal May 04 '17 at 15:46

Regex to match only strings that don't contain specific character

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