Regular expression to filter for notes not containing a specific word

Question

Paratext help says, “In the Search box on the toolbar, you can enter the text you want to find or the regular expression you want to match.”

I need to be able to find all project notes that do not contain the word “gloss.” What regular expression would I use to achieve this using the text filter window in the notes list? Thanks for any help you can give me on this.

Answer 1

I’ve searched this and found several suggestions of a regex to do this. None of them seem to work for the notes list.

I did find one that works in the main Paratext search. This will show me all the verses that do not include David (tested on Matthew 1).
regex:^((?!David).)*$

This does not include any notes when I entered four notes in my test project, one with “David” mentioned and three that do not. I’ve reported this to the developers.