Re: Regepxp-help: Replacing foo with bar but not foo.*

[Eric Hanchrow]

and for what it's worth, if you want to write the regular expression
in Emacs Lisp code (as opposed to typing it directly to M-x
replace-regexp), you could use

        (rx "foo" (group (not (any "."))))

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