How to search with a criteria in sublime?

Question

in sublime if you want to search for a string "apple" but not "apple." How do you do that? Thank you all.

I heard somewhere you can add a - to substract unwanted hit but don't know where to put it.

Answer 1

With regular expression, you can use:

\bapple(?!\.)

Where (?!\.) is a negative lookahead that make sure we haven't a dot after apple and \b is a word boundary to be sure to not match pinapple