Using eachDirMatch to skip .svn folders

Question

I'm writing a program which needs to traverse a set of directories. Tried to use the following code:

file.eachDirMatch(/.*[^.svn]/){ //some code here }

But that ended up match none of my directories. I realize this boils down figuring out the right regex hang head in shame but even after revisiting some Java Regular Expression documentation I thought this should work.

Answer 1

Try this regex instead:

/^(?!\.svn).*/

(This assumes that your language's regex flavor supports negative lookaheads.)