Search files containing certain text but not certain other text

[wanderer]

I wish to find files containing a text but not a specific variation of it. I've tried playing with the Find Files dialog (i'm not sure if regex is supported in the Find Text field) without luck. I also tried Everything but couldn't make it work either. Can someone please help?

Example of what i'm trying to achieve:

Find files containing text "<LINK>" but not "<LINK>Properties"

[white]

Find text:

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<LINK>(?!Properties)

[X] RegEx (2)

[wanderer]

Great, thanks! I was trying to use subexpressions but it seems i was doing something wrong.

[white]

Be aware that the used regex library by TC has a limitation that a look ahead assertion must be at the end of the regular expression (and a look behind assertion must be at the start).

[wanderer]

Ok, thanks again for the info.

[tuska]

2wanderer

Just out of interest:
Does this query also work in Everything 1.5a?

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"Path" content*:<LINK>

; Operator: < > Grouping
; Use a * before the : to treat the rest of the search as the value: