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Do you have a sample input?
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#1: &nbsp;) DL Notes CWS 10:05 pm
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I have a regular expression like this: (\)([^:-]*):\d+)<br />
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It finds a group of strings. But I want to exclude the strings that include what I have in quotes: &quot;&nbsp;DL &quot;<br />
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Any assistance is appreciated.
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I have a regular expression like this: (\)([^:-]*):\d+)

It finds a group of strings. But I want to exclude the strings that include what I have in quotes: " DL "

Any assistance is appreciated.

Regular Expression (Excluding String)

A regular expression ("regex") is a sequence of characters that define a search pattern, mainly for use in pattern matching with strings, or string matching, i.e. "find and replace"-like operations. Regular expression processors are found in several search engines, search and replace dialogs of several word processors and text editors, and in the command lines of text processing utilities, such as sed and AWK. Many programming languages provide regular expression capabilities, some built-in, for example Perl, JavaScript, Ruby, AWK, and Tcl, and others via a standard library, for example .NET languages, Java, Python and C++ (since C++11). Most other languages offer regular expressions via a library.