I want to write a regex where I want to negate entire string.
I tried - inventory/[^getData](assumming it will check getData string not to be present in expression)
I want "inventory/getData" to fail above regex match whereas "inventory/get" to pass regex match. Basically want to negate string "getData" How can I do this?
If the entire string is inventory/getData or inventory/get then this will work as a positive match for inventory/get but not inventory/getData
^inventory/get$
^ matches the start of the string and $ matches the end
This pattern asserts that the string ends with get, if it ends with getData it will not match
To examine the more complex case of matching a negation, here are some example strings to be matched
inventory/[^g][^e][^t][^D][^a][^t][^a] matches 3 only. This is because the [^g][^e][^t] section is a non match for the other examples
inventory/(?:[^g][^e][^t][^D][^a][^t][^a]|get.*) matches all except for 2 -- not sure but perhaps this is what you are asking for? As you can see the negation is tailored to the test data