Need RegEx to find a string NOT containing a .

[InteXX]

I have an HTML document that contains ~300 instances of this string:

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</p>\n  </div>

I need to search and find--one at a time, so I can manually edit the markup as I go--each instance that is NOT preceded by a period.

Ex:

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{a-z,A-Z,0-9}</p>\n  </div>

Is found,

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.</p>\n  </div>

Is not.

Am I asking for too much or can this be done?

Thanks,
Jeff

[InteXX]

It seems I answered my own question merely by asking it:

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[a-zA-Z0-9]</p>\n  </div>

Thanks, nice to meet ch'all!

[ben_josephs]

More generally, [^.] matches any single character that is not a period (and is not a newline).

[InteXX]

That's even better, thanks.