Regular expression to find whether line DOES NOT end with a specific pattern

[Kingsly Theodar]

Hi,

I have list of directories and java files.

/usr/com

/usr/com/file1.java

/usr/com/file2.java

/usr/com/regexdir1

/usr/com/regexdir2

/usr/com/regexdir1/file3.java

/usr/com/regexdir2/file4.java

For selecting lines ending with ".java", I will use regular expression "*.java"

But for selecting list of directories, I am aware that I should select all the lines that does not match the pattern "*.java"

How will I express this in regular expression?

Any help on this is greatly appreciated. Please help.



Thanks,

T.Kingsly

[Eric Pascarello]

If it fails that regular expression than you should know it is a directory.

You could easily just do

if(str.indexOf(".java")!=-1){
  alert("file");
}
else{
  alert("directory");
}

Eric

[Kingsly Theodar]

Hi Eric Pascarello,
That looks great.
But the tool I am using accepts only Regular expression.
Any idea of using regular expression for the same?

Thanks,
T.Kingsly

[Eric Pascarello]

Something like this?

.*[^\.java]

Eric

[Kingsly Theodar]

Bingo. That is the one.

Thanks for sharing it Eric



Thanks,
T.Kingsly