Question

I want to write a regular expression for the following scenario.

If line starts with word “project“, then allow any type of character after it except “.” (dot).

For example:

project is to pick up of discontinued items.

The above line should not get selected and the following lines should get selected:

project :
Project #1

I have created regular expression like this, but it is not working in few scenarios. Can anyone help me correcting my regular expression or creating new RE?

project\s[\s\S^\.]{0,50}

The logic for the above RE is: select string containing word “project”, followed by one whitespace character, followed by 0 to 50 characters of all types except dot character.

Answer 1

What about:

/^project[^.]*$/i if you want to select “project”

/^project[^.]+$/i if you need at least one char after project