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Glenn Morris wrote:

> FCC wrote:
> 
> 
>>Initially I was trying to use isearch for a regexp but only to
>>search for those occurences which are not in comments (or which do
>>not appear after the character !). After spending some time with
>>Google, it turned out that this is not possible because one cannot
>>"invert a match", which is what is required here.
> 
> 
> M-x occur ^[^!C-qC-j]*regexp
> 
> ought to work (the C-qC-j bit gives you a newline).
> It will be fooled by instances of your desired regexp occurring after
> a string containing !, but I imagine that's unlikely. If you needed
> to deal with that, you could cook up some elisp using f90-in-comment.

I did try M-x occur ^[^!C-qC-j]*stress and the result was `no match'.

Thanks anyway,

FCC.