Question

I’m newbie in Perl regexp programming (using it in .NET RegExp class), so for more than a day im trying to create regexp which will search symbol from class A (for example class \W) but not from class B (for example class [']). Other words, pattern \W+ matches d'sparil! in position 1 on ', but i need pattern ??? which matches d'sparil! only in position 8 on !. And if there are some other \W chars like %, @, (, this pattern will skip only class B ['] chars. Have any idea? I have tried silly pattern like [\W^'``]+ but it works strange… if it works at all.

Answer 1

Try with:

/[^\w']/

since \W is [^\w].