Regex find word NOT starting with " or ' AND ends with space

Question

i've been trying to create a regex to find words that do not start with " or ' and ends with space.

This is what i have so far :

\b(?![i|"|'])test.([^\s,]+)

Test data

SHOULD WORK -> test.something test.somethingelse.another  // 2 Matches This is correct

SHOULD NOT WORK ->  one.test.two  // 1 mathces should be 0 is not the start of word

SHOULD NOT WORK -> "test.shouldnotbeselected 'test.something  //2 matches should be 0 has ' or "

NEGATIVE LOOK AHEAD WORKS WITH "i" and not with quoutes    I don't know why  -> 
itest.doesnottake  'test.doesnottake "test.doesnottake // 2Matches should be 0

Any help would be appreciated. Thank you in advance.

Answer 1

You can use

(?<!\S)test\.(\S+)

See the regex demo. Details:

• (?<!\S) - a left-hand whitespace boundary
• test\. - test. string
• (\S+) - Capturing group 1: any zero or more whitespace chars, as many as possible.