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regular expression to match all java imports except one with a certain ending

I am trying to do a search and replace in eclipse on the imports in my java file but I cant get the search to match the imports I want.

In short I want to match all import statements except ones that end with a particular string.

so far I have ^import\s.*[^{STRINGTEXT}];$

but this does not return the results I need. I have tried using related expressions from other questions on this site but none seem to work...I would guess that this is a special case. Any help would be appreciated

Solution

  • With a small lookbehind you can do it easily

    ^import.*?(?<!BADSTRING);$

    It match import then all chars up to ;, checking that ; not preceded by BADSTRING