Regex for matching something if it is not preceded by something else

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You want to use negative lookbehind like this: 

\w*(?<!foo)bar

Where (?<!x) means “only if it doesn’t have “x” before this point”.

See Regular Expressions – Lookaround for more information.

Edit: added the \w* to capture the characters before (e.g. “beach”).

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