excluding search string in regular expressions

[Mitja]

Franz Steinhaeusler wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 13:36:46 +0200, Franz Steinhaeusler
> <franz.steinhaeusler at utanet.at> wrote:
>
>>
>> single characters with [^ab] but I need not(ab)
>>
>> not_this_brace_pattern(\*\*/\n).*::
>
> Sorry,
> is this the solution (simple concatenating
> [^*][^*][^/]\n.*:: ?

That should do, though it's admittedly far from elegant; I, too, would like to see a nicer solution.

> The background:
> I want to scan cpp file, whether the have a doxygen
> comment already: It should find all postitions, where
> this is missing:
>
> ok
>
> doxygen comment
> **/
> void CBs::InitButtonPanel (int progn1, int progn2)

In this case, I'd replace \n with \w*, meaning any amount of whitespace.