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Reputation: 1180
Regular expression to match all but certain characters in class
What's the best way match all punctuation characters in the class [[:punct:]] except @ and #?
Upvotes: 2
Views: 570
Answers (2)
GetSet
Reputation: 532
[[:punct:]] is equivalent to [!"#$%&'()*+,-./:;<=>?@[\]^_`{|}~]
See: http://www.regular-expressions.info/posixbrackets.html
You can simply extract the symbols you don't want:
[!"$%&'()*+,-./:;<=>?[\]^_`{|}~]
Upvotes: 1
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