I’m stuck on a regex problem. I want to match things that are not a whitespace or a newline.
Not whitespace is simply:
[^ ]
does not mean not whitespace or newline is:
[^( |\n)]
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I’m stuck on a regex problem. I want to match things that are not a whitespace or a newline.
Not whitespace is simply:
[^ ]
does not mean not whitespace or newline is:
[^( |\n)]
No,
means “any character that’s neither a space, a
(, a), a|, or a newline.The
[]is called a character class. It matches a single character from a list, optionally negated with the^at the beginning.What you want is
(or
\Sif you also want to exclude line feeds, form feeds and tabs from the range of legal matches).