I have the following regex statement I'm trying to run in PHP.  (?<!(end\s?zone|lower|upper)\s?)(view)  Testing against the following string: (matches in bold) "The endzone view goes hi upper view and he goes view and then goes view and view and view!!!" Notice "upper view" and "endzone view" are ...

I've been trying to match the pattern below for about a week and can't seem to get it right. I need to match a specific string that is not hyper-linked or enclosed in brackets.I'm sure the code below won't match what i need. It's simply to illustrate what i'm aiming to accomplish: [^\{] word here[^\} ]  Any ...