Search is not working

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Regex search

These are some examples of searches in netbeans using a Regex pattern

So i want to change some <input> tags.

<input .....>
to
<input ..... />

 The following will search for all <input strings that do not terminate in />

Search String:
<input(.*)([^\/])>

Replacement String:
<input$1$2 />

However this does not take into account of whether there is a space at the end so I need to do another search for:

<input(.*)({space}){2}\/>  - needs finishing

Notes

• ^ is a 'not' character when within []

  [^\/]