How to "inverse match" with regex?

(?!Andrea).{6}

Assuming your regexp engine supports negative lookaheads..

Edit: ..or maybe you'd prefer to use [A-Za-z]{6} in place of .{6}

Edit (again): Note that lookaheads and lookbehinds are generally not the right way to "inverse" a regular expression match. Regexps aren't really set up for doing negative matching, they leave that to whatever language you are using them with.

For Python/Java,

^(.(?!(some text)))*$

http://www.lisnichenko.com/articles/javapython-inverse-regex.html

Updated with feedback from Alan Moore

In PCRE and similar variants, you can actually create a regex that matches any line not containing a value:

^(?:(?!Andrea).)*$

This is called a tempered greedy token. The downside is that it doesn't perform well.