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First, I confess I haven't read through all the posts on this forum, and further I'm not a regexp master.

That said, I'd like the pattern exclusion in TextPad enhanced so that you can specify not to match a string, rather than just single chars. Right now, you can exclude a list or a range of individual characters. Like, to not match x, y, or z: What I'd like to see is some type of extension that would let me exclude a string of chars, like: Of course, the problem with the above is that you'd really need some escaped character instead of normal quotes, but hopefully you get the idea.

Expressions already exist to help with that, but TextPad does not support them at this time. That could probably be done by adding the 4 lookaround expressions of:

Positive lookahead (?=.....) successful if it can match to the right

Negative lookahead (?!.....) successful if it can NOT match to the right

Positive lookbehind (?<=.....) successful if it can match to the left

Negative lookbehind (?<!.....) successful if it can NOT match to the left

Using these in conjunction with word boundary expressions \< and \> should provide an additional level of Search/Replace functions.

Add a poll, I would definitely vote for this.