REGEX simple ! question

Use this:

(?<!=db_)\w+

/(db_ABC)+|ABC+/g will provide all matches of db_ABC in group 1 and all matches of ABC in group 0.

-saige-

sorry for the confusion.
ABC is exact literal text (not meta placeholder text for my example)
i don't want to match ABC   when  the ABC identifier is directly preceded by  db_

Then this:

(?<!=db_)\ABC

hmmmm  sorry, plain ABC doesn't match now.
i experimented some more and tried
*!(db_)ABC

and that seems to work (i hope) - does that look reasonable?
(i had the not operator in the wrong place

ooops  nevermind, that last one matches the entire line  :(

Try this
(?<!db_)ABC(?x:)

The last expression means 'Ignore Pattern/Whitespace'.
With this I get 3 matches using following text:

xyzABC    will match
xyzdb_ABC   won't match
ABC
DSDSABC

(?<!db_)ABC    unfortunately does not match anything  (even just ABC)

to recap:
i'd like the following examples to match:
(nothing)ABCetc1
123ABCetc2
_ABCetc3

but the following
not to match:
(nothing)db_ABCetc1
anythingdb_ABCetc2

thanks

I suspect my simplification is causing the issue for the test example, my apologies.

here's the real life example being searched for:
(?<!db_)SingleFieldQuery(x:)

(?<!db_)SingleFieldQuery(?x:)    matches nothing, sorry.

plain SingleFieldQuery matches, for example:

$CustAcctID = SingleFieldQuery("SELECT

and

// db_SingleFieldQuery       (don't want this matched)

is there an online Regex tester (i found several that are installable programs, but none that
one can enter a searchstring and a sample text to search/replace)

(i'm wondering if it's a bug in the particular implementation of regex in the tool i'm using? )

thanks!

In the suggested tester the regex works without the parameter to Ignore PatternWhiteSpace required by my tester. So it seems work the regex suggested in my post ID: 40692307. I'm a bit confused about the reason one tester require some additiona parameter and other don't... Anyway, good link, @saige :)

aha!  excellent,
it's evidently a bug in the regex engine for the tool i'm using!

THANK YOU

(?<!db_)SingleFieldQuery    works to differentiate the two test cases!

Great! I was very surprised to hear that didn't work :-)

Thanks all!