How do I match “not” with more characters in the Java regular expression pattern?

In Java regular expressions, use [^ x] to match "not" with a char

I wonder how to match more characters?

I use [^ 789], which is wrong

String text="aa(123)bb(456)cc(789)dd(78)";
    text=text.replaceAll("\\([^789].*?\\)","");

    System.out.println(text);

The result I want is:

aabbcc(789)dd

How do I fix my regular expressions?

Thank you very much:)

Solution

You can use negative lookahead:

"\\((?!789\\)).*?\\)"

explain:

\\(     Match a literal open parenthesis "("
(?!     Start negative lookahead
789\\)  Match literal "789)"
)       End lookahead
.*?     Match any characters (non-greedy)
\\)     Match a literal close parenthesis ")"

If the pattern in the negative look ahead matches, the negative look forward does not match