Regular expression for a string containing one word but not another

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This should do it:

^(?!.*details\.cfm).*selector=size.*$

^.*selector=size.*$ should be clear enough. The first bit, (?!.*details.cfm) is a negative look-ahead: before matching the string it checks the string does not contain “details.cfm” (with any number of characters before it).

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