Re: Quick Regex Question

On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 11:51:34AM +0100, A. Kretschmer wrote:
> am  Thu, dem 20.12.2007, um 10:36:08 +0000 mailte Howard Cole folgendes:
> > Your expression works fine Richard, as does '(^| )ho', but can you tell
> > me why '[ ^]ho' doesn't work?
>
> With ^ you means an anchor, but within the brackets it's a simple char.

Err no, it inverts the test. [^ ] means any character *except* a space.

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