Hello,

I wonder if you can help me, this is driving me crazy!

I have a large text file and I want to find a term in it.
But... I only want the regex to be successful if this term is NOT encompassed by square brackets.

e.g. this is the search term:    sp_W_rev_CreditClient_RMAItems
I do not want this to be successful:     [sp_W_rev_CreditClient_RMAItems]

Below is what I have tried, using negative lookahead and lookbehind,
but it never returns ANY results no matter the search term!

grep.exe -n "(?<!\[)sp_W_rev_CreditClient_RMAItems(?!\])" "C:\Solutions\ProcedureHouseKeeping\ProcedureHouseKeeping\bin\Debug\CHIP ALL DATABASE OBJECTS ANSI ENCODING.txt"

I am using grep to search the file on the Windows Server 2003 platform