[thelist] any non-alphanumeric character except space

[Seth Thomas Rasmussen]

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I am trying to do a regex that matches any non-alphanumeric character
except space. Any suggestions?  This one [^[:alnum:]+] matches any
non-alphanumeric character including spaces. So it's almost there...

Thanks!
Peter
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Are the outer brackets referencing the start and end of your pattern, or a
character set IN the pattern?

Either way, I think you are confused. [:alnum:] MATCHES alphanumeric
characters(A-Z,a-z,0-9), not the other way around. I am new to RegExp's, but
if you wanted to match non-alphanumeric characters wouldn't you be left
essentially with what [:punct:] covers? Perhaps [:cntrl:] as well.




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