How to regex part of string but not whole?

[Mat]

How should I formulate the operand for the regexp filter operator ( regexp[...] ) to catch

<div

but not

<div>

nor (for example)

<div class="x">

?

I'm hoping there is a single regexpression for this.

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[TiddlyTweeter]

Ciao Mat

What you interested in here is negatives? Right?

You will have to do the regex through a definition since negatives involve square brackets.

"<div ?[^c>]" should work for the example. If its the content of a one line field. IF its deep inside a text field we'd need to do a bit more.

But basically ...

literal "<div"

" ?" match  0 or 1 space

"[^c>]" match any character that is not "c" or ">" 

 This should match anything NOT with those patterns.

Tell me if you have problems.

TT

[Mat]

Thank you TT - you're just the man I hoped would reply! May I invite you to my secret project which is soon to be unleashed onto the community? I strongly suspect it will be a hit(!) and it does need a few regexp's. I don't want to post about it here prematurely so anyone dismisses it.

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