python - Regular expression: match word not between quotes

Question

I would like a Python regular expression that matches a given word that's not between simple quotes. I've tried to use the (?! ...) but without success.

In the following screenshot, I would like to match all foe except the one in the 4th line.

Plus, the text is given as one big string.

Here is the link regex101 and the sample text is below:

var foe = 10;
foe = "";
dark_vador = 'bad guy'
foe = ' I'm your father, foe ! '
bar = thingy + foe

Answer 1

You can try this:-

((?!'[ws]*)foe(?![ws]*'))