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Asked: May 26, 20262026-05-26T13:41:26+00:00 2026-05-26T13:41:26+00:00

I have a text like this: a = CreateObject(1-SI) foo bar ‘blah blah CreateObject(2-No)

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I have a text like this:

a = CreateObject("1-SI")
foo bar 'blah blah CreateObject("2-No")
'CreateObject("3-No")

with regular expression i want select all CreateObject("...") substrings that don’t have the ‘ character on the left

How can I do this?

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    2026-05-26T13:41:27+00:00Added an answer on May 26, 2026 at 1:41 pm

    You can do it like this (example at RegExr)

    ^(?:[^']*?)(CreateObject\(".*?"\))
    

    Not sure about VB6s regex – but this doesn’t require lookahead or behind.

    The first capturing group is the CreateObject(..) part. You will need to use multiline mode (if possible in VB6).

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