[thelist] any non-alphanumeric character except space

Paul Cowan evolt at funkwit.com
Thu Jul 15 19:14:37 CDT 2004



On 15/07/2004 5:20 PM -0400 PeterV wrote:
> 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...

This regular expression (note the space):
[^[:alnum:] ]
will match any single character, excepting an alpha-numeric or a space.

Cheers,

Paul.



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