Regex for find files which contain tag but not contain tag in visual studio project

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Hello experts!

I want to search criteria using
Regex for find all files which
contain word1 but
not contain word2
in visual studio project

please help

Posted 28-Nov-13 0:45am

Aarti Meswania

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OriginalGriff · Answer 1 · 2013-11-28T00:50:00

Solution 1

So use two regexes:

C#

if (Regex.Match(inputfiletext, "word1").Success && !Regex.Match(inputfiletext, "word2").Success)
   {
   ...
   }

Posted 28-Nov-13 0:50am

OriginalGriff

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Aarti Meswania 28-Nov-13 6:55am

Thank you OriginalGriff for kind response
I want to search my project files that fulfill above criteria in visual studio 2010 using Find and replace window that we open using ctrl+f shortcut...
could you please suggest regex for that I have tried many regex but didn't worked

OriginalGriff 28-Nov-13 7:12am

Regex is not good at that kind of thing!
You can identify "does not contain" and "contains" but it's truly a PITA to do both, since you can only (AFAIK - I could be wrong) search for an absence of a prefix or suffix, so your search would have to allow for "word1 then word2" or "word2 then word1" - it's probably going to be easier and quicker to have two "find in files" lists and do it manually!

The problem is that with prefixes and suffixes it could easily get confused by "word1...word2...word1" and either find it when it shouldn't or not find it when it should... :laugh: