Similar but not same string sequence

Question

How to match the following sequence:

You wound DUMMY TARGET for 100 points of damage

but not:

You wound DUMMY TARGET with SKILL for 100 points of damage

with the regular expression:

^You wound ([\\w\\s]+)(?!with) for (\\d+) points of damage

The regular expression above is matching both strings while i expect to match only the first one. Is there any way to make this work?

Sample Java code:

import java.util.regex.*;

public class Dummy {

 static Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile("^You wound ([\\w\\s]+)(?!with) for (\\d+) points of damage");
 static Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher("");
 static String FIRST_SEQUENCE =  "You wound DUMMY TARGET for 100 points of damage";
 static String SECOND_SEQUENCE =  "You wound DUMMY TARGET with SKILL for 100 points of damage";

 public static void main(String...args) {  
  if (matcher.reset(FIRST_SEQUENCE).matches())
   System.out.println("First match. Ok!");

  if (matcher.reset(SECOND_SEQUENCE).matches())
   System.out.println("Second match. Wrong!");
 }
}

Answer 1

Try with non-greedy operator +? , ([\\w\\s]+?)

^You wound ([\\w\\s]+?)(?!with) for (\\d+) points of damage

Answer 2

also, if the string to be matched is always upper case, you can try :

^You wound ([A-Z\s]+) for (\d+) points of damage

Answer 3

Try this:

"^You wound [A-Za-z0-9 ][^with]+ for [0-9]+ points of damage"

worked for me