Regex for string not ending with given suffix

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You don’t give us the language, but if your regex flavour support look behind assertion, this is what you need:

.*(?<!a)$

(?<!a) is a negated lookbehind assertion that ensures, that before the end of the string (or row with m modifier), there is not the character “a”.

See it here on Regexr

You can also easily extend this with other characters, since this checking for the string and isn’t a character class.

.*(?<!ab)$

This would match anything that does not end with “ab”, see it on Regexr

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