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Posted: **Mon Dec 07, 2009 8:11 am**

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

</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:

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

Is found,

.</p>\n  </div>

Is not.

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

Thanks,
Jeff

Posted: **Mon Dec 07, 2009 8:16 am**

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

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

Thanks, nice to meet ch'all!

Posted: **Mon Dec 07, 2009 10:01 am**

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

Posted: **Mon Dec 07, 2009 10:15 am**

That's even better, thanks.

Need RegEx to find a string NOT containing a .