Question

A colleague is scanning a large script looking for the substring UAT (case insensitive). Unfortunately, the script contains many references to “valuation”, either as a whole word or as part of a field name.

What RegEx search pattern would return matches for UAT as in the following samples?

• UAT : Match
• uat : Match
• TheUATServer1 : Match
• Valuation : No match
• ValuationDate: No match

Many thanks

Neil

Answer 1

Edit: This one works for the OP’s cases.

Try this expression: uat~(ion)

The SSMS (and Visual Studio) regex has different syntax for negative lookahead: ~(prevent)

If you wanted uat by itself, you can use this: <uat>.

The < and > stand for begining and end of word, respectively.