Slightly more accurately, ^ as the *first* character inside [] means
not. Later in the [] it means ^
C
On Thu, 2002-02-21 at 10:42, Charlie Watts wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, Arpi wrote:
>
> > rawbody ASCII_FORM_ENTRY /[^<][A-Za-z][A-Za-z]+.{1,15}?\s+_{30,}/
> >
> > could someone please explain what does [^<] matches ?
> > afaik ^ means beginning-of-line but it's strange in [] character array.
> > so, what does ^ mean there? begin-of-line or '^' character?
>
> ^ inside a character class ([]) doesn't mean "beginning of line", it means
> -not-.
>
> [^<] means "any character except '<'".
>
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