From: Ryan Holmes Date: 2010-08-06T17:58:43+09:00 Subject: Re: regular expression negate a word (not character) Hi all, I know this is an old post, but was trying to do something similar and came up with this: ((?=.*snow\s*tire.*)|^.*tire.*$) Does that meet the required need? If it's full line matches you're looking for, I think it should do the trick. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.