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Using negative character class [^...]
What is a negative character class? How to specify a negative character class in a regular expression?
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A negative character class defines a set of characters to be excluded in the match process. A negative character class is expressed with '^' as the first character in a character class, [^...].
A negative character class matches any character except those character but those listed in the character class.
Here are some examples of negative character classes:
[^0-9] # matches a non-numeric character [^bcr ]at # matches any '.at', but not 'bat', 'cat' and 'rat'
The regular expression to a capture words without vowel letters is:
\b([^aeiou\W]{2,})\b
\b - word boundary
[^aeiou\W] - any non-vowel and non-word letter
{2,} - repeating 2 or more times
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