I want to write the regex pattern which should match the string in between also. For example: I have writtenthe regex pattern like this ^((?!mystring).)*$ Which means match words which doesnot contain mystring. But i want regex pattern to match like this. mystringabcdfrevrgf regex matcher should return abcdfrevrgf How will i achieve this, Please help Thanks in advance. Answer: ((?!mystring)(.*))$