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On 2/11/2013 1:25 AM, Nigel Wade wrote:

> Er, not quite. There's also '^' which, as the first character only,
> negates the match.

Did you read the next paragraph where I mention this?

I wrote:
 > (It appears to me that
 > ^ actually makes a separate token with [, [^, which is different from
 > the non-negated character class.  That's why you can use ^ anywhere
 > within the character class except the first position.)