Question

i have the following code:

/**
* @generated
*/
public class foo ...

/**
* @generated
*/
public class bar...

public class interesting

I am interested in those signatures, which haven’t the @generated tag. Therefore I was trying to write a regular expression. But I can’t get it working… Can you please help me ?

([\^*][/]\r\n)p  

matches all elements with the @generated tag, but how can I get those withouth the @generated tag ?!

Thanks a lot

Answer 1

You should start with regex (?<!@generated\n\*\/\n)(public class .*) and if needed to add some \s to negative lookbehind (?<! ... ). Lookbehind has to be fix pattern, so you need to adjust it exactly without \s* or some other variable length pattern.