[regex] Match everything except for specified strings

Matching any text but those matching a pattern is usually achieved with splitting the string with the regex pattern.

Examples:

• c# - Regex.Split(text, @"red|green|blue") or, to get rid of empty values, Regex.Split(text, @"red|green|blue").Where(x => !string.IsNullOrEmpty(x)) (see demo)
• vb.net - Regex.Split(text, "red|green|blue") or, to remove empty items, Regex.Split(text, "red|green|blue").Where(Function(s) Not String.IsNullOrWhitespace(s)) (see demo, or this demo where LINQ is supported)
• javascript - text.split(/red|green|blue/) (no need to use g modifier here!) (to get rid of empty values, use text.split(/red|green|blue/).filter(Boolean)), see demo
• java - text.split("red|green|blue"), or - to keep all trailing empty items - use text.split("red|green|blue", -1), or to remove all empty items use more code to remove them (see demo)
• groovy - Similar to Java, text.split(/red|green|blue/), to get all trailing items use text.split(/red|green|blue/, -1) and to remove all empty items use text.split(/red|green|blue/).findAll {it != ""}) (see demo)
• kotlin - text.split(Regex("red|green|blue")) or, to remove blank items, use text.split(Regex("red|green|blue")).filter{ !it.isBlank() }, see demo
• scala - text.split("red|green|blue"), or to keep all trailing empty items, use text.split("red|green|blue", -1) and to remove all empty items, use text.split("red|green|blue").filter(_.nonEmpty) (see demo)
• ruby - text.split(/red|green|blue/), to get rid of empty values use .split(/red|green|blue/).reject(&:empty?) (and to get both leading and trailing empty items, use -1 as the second argument, .split(/red|green|blue/, -1)) (see demo)
• perl - my @result1 = split /red|green|blue/, $text;, or with all trailing empty items, my @result2 = split /red|green|blue/, $text, -1;, or without any empty items, my @result3 = grep { /\S/ } split /red|green|blue/, $text; (see demo)
• php - preg_split('~red|green|blue~', $text) or preg_split('~red|green|blue~', $text, -1, PREG_SPLIT_NO_EMPTY) to output no empty items (see demo)
• python - re.split(r'red|green|blue', text) or, to remove empty items, list(filter(None, re.split(r'red|green|blue', text))) (see demo)
• go - Use regexp.MustCompile("red|green|blue").Split(text, -1), and if you need to remove empty items, use this code. See Go demo.

NOTE: If you patterns contain capturing groups, regex split functions/methods may behave differently, also depending on additional options. Please refer to the appropriate split method documentation then.