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copied!<p>I don't know what Velocimacro is (judging from the other answer I guess "addButton" will appear on its own line?), but the sure-fire way of finding the word "addButton" that is not preceeded by <code>#</code> is the following:</p> <pre><code>/(?<!#)\baddButton\b/ </code></pre> <p>It will:</p> <ol> <li><code>(?<!#)</code> <a href="http://www.regular-expressions.info/lookaround.html" rel="noreferrer">(?)</a> <ul> <li>Make sure that the current position is not preceeded by a <code>#</code> (hash mark)</li> </ul></li> <li><code>\b</code> <a href="http://www.regular-expressions.info/wordboundaries.html" rel="noreferrer">(?)</a> <ul> <li>Make sure that the current position is a word boundary (in this case it makes sure that the previous character is not a word character and that the next character is)</li> </ul></li> <li><code>addButton</code> <a href="http://www.regular-expressions.info/characters.html" rel="noreferrer">(?)</a> <ul> <li>Match "addButton"</li> </ul></li> <li><code>\b</code> <a href="http://www.regular-expressions.info/wordboundaries.html" rel="noreferrer">(?)</a> <ul> <li>Make sure that there is a word boundary at the current position. This avoids matching things like "addButtonNew" (because there is no word boundary between "addButton" and "New")</li> </ul></li> </ol> <p>A difference with this regular expression and the other is that this one will not consume the character before "addButton".</p> <p>A good resource for learning about regular expressions is <a href="http://www.regular-expressions.info/" rel="noreferrer">regular-expressions.info</a>. Click the (?) link in the list above for a link to the relevant page for that part of the regex.</p>

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