RegExp question

[Ryan Bowman]

I have a regexp "repeat\\(-[xy]?\\)?" this should
match
repeat
repeat-x
repeat-y
, which it does, however it also matches 
background-repeat:
which I don't want it to.
So I changed it to this "repeat\\(-[xy]?\\)?[^:]"
so it won't match background-repeat: but then it no
longer matches repeat,
I assume because [^:] actually means to match
something, but not a ':'
so how do I specifiy that I don't care if anything
follows the patter or not,
so long as it is NOT ':'?




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Ryan

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