-- AOBScanNot('XX XX XX !YY XX XX !ZZ XX');
	-- AOBScanNot('XX XX XX !YY XX XX !AA!BB!CC!DD ... XX');
function AOBScanNot(aob) -- only string
	if (type(aob) == 'string') then
		aob = aob:gsub('[^%x%!%s%?]+',''):gsub('%s+',' '); -- clean up and remove exceesive space
		local NotOffset,NotOffsetSize,byteNum = {},0,0;
		for byte in aob:gmatch('%S+') do
			byteNum = byteNum+1; -- total bytes
			if (byte:match('!')) then
				NotOffset[byteNum] = {};
				NotOffsetSize = NotOffsetSize + 1;
				for NotByte in byte:gmatch('[^!]+%x+') do -- incase some genius would want to do xx|yy|??
					table.insert(NotOffset[byteNum],tonumber(NotByte,16));
				end
			end
		end
		local newAob = aob:gsub('!%x+','??'):gsub('%?+','??');
		local aobs = AOBScan(newAob) -- get rid of the 'Not' bytes
		if (aobs) then
			for i=0,aobs.Count-1 do
				local address = aobs.getString(i);
				local bytes,matchCount = readBytes(address,byteNum,true); -- better than multiple readBytes;
				local isValid = true;
				for offset,NotBytes in pairs(NotOffset) do
					for _,byte in pairs(NotBytes) do
						if (byte == bytes[offset]) then
							print('found bad byte:',byte);
							isValid = false
							break;
						end
					end
					if (not isValid) then
						break;
					end
				end
				if (isValid) then
					aobs.destroy();
					return address
				end
			end
			aobs.destroy();
		end
	end
end

registerAutoAssemblerCommand('aobscanNot',function(line)
	local name,bytes = line:match('([^,]+),(.+)');
	local address = AOBScanNot(bytes);
	return ('define(%s,%s)'):format(name,address);
end)