Using sublime regex to find all links that dont start with “home” word

Question

I am using handlebars. So I need a way to detect all {{#link-to 'route-name'}}... helpers that dont start with home name. I am new to regex so I cannot find good regex. Bad example: ([^home]|^) {{#link-to

Answer 1

You're using the [^...] term, which means any character except those in the brackets, so [^home] should match any character except for h , o , m and e .

In your case, what you're searching for is a Negative Lookahead:

^.+\s?{{#link-to '(?:(?!home).{0,4}.*)'}}

Take a look at this Regex101 working example .

• ^ Matches start of a text (or line, with /m flag enabled)
• .+ Matches the name of the element (You may remove it if needed)
• \\s? Matches one or zero occurrences of a whitespace character ( \\s , you also may remove)
• {{#link-to ' The literal form of the text to be matched
• (?: Start of a non-capturing group
• (?! Start of a negative lookahead group
• home Literal text to NOT be matched
• ) End of the negative lookahead group
• .{0,4} Matches any zero-four characters except if they value is home (because of the (?!home) )
• .* If the link-to's name is longer than four characters, match them.
• ) End of the non-capturing group
• '}} Literal text to match (end of the route link)