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Q: 

Notepad++ I'm looking for a regexp to select all occurances of 'href="' that do not match 'href="javascript'

This is about the code editor Notepad++.

I'm looking for a regular expression that will solve the following problem:

I have a set of html files. I need to find all links in them that are not links to javascript functions. If I search for the string 'href="' I get 342 results and if I search for 'href="javascript' I get 301 results. I'd like to get at the 41 elements that are only in the first set. That is all links that are not to javascript function calls.

I'd be grateful if anyone more familiar with regular expressions than I currently am could help me out on this one.

A: 

I don't know exactly the RegExp engine of Notepad++ but the extended regular expression would look like:

href="(?:(?!javascript).)
KARASZI István  2010-09-24 21:04:02
there does not seem to be a '?' in notepad++
dude  2010-09-24 21:08:47
I looked here: http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/notepad-plus/index.php?title=Regular_Expressions
dude  2010-09-24 21:09:16
the regexp: href="(javascript) finds all the javascript function calls but I have not managed to negate the (javascript) so far
dude  2010-09-24 21:12:46
that's sad, could you use a different/better editor?
KARASZI István  2010-09-24 21:13:28
sure could, any recommendations?
dude  2010-09-24 21:16:14
gvim for e.g. it has a windows compatibility mode which helps the starters
KARASZI István  2010-09-24 21:18:27
+1  A: 

This will match urls that don't start with "j", which probably will work for you.

href="[^j]
LatinSuD  2010-09-24 21:13:25
thank you. This worked. It would exclude any relative links starting with a 'j' but since I know I was looking for 41 (from the searches described above) I know I got them all. So thanks.
dude  2010-09-24 21:17:17
A: 

PowerGrep w/ RegexBuddy - I use notepad++ and PowerGrep

Wes  2010-09-24 21:18:15

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