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Regex for non-word chars excluding - (minus) and =(equals)

radhikj
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Dec 14, 2009, 12:27 AM

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Regex for non-word chars excluding - (minus) and =(equals)

Hi,

I'm trying to frame a regular expression where I have to search for the non-word characters except - and =. Currently I have put all the meta chars and non-word chars other than - &= for my search. But I think there should be alternate and easy way to get it.

For .eg., I have to search for string like abc%de_f (this regex matching this should work for any patterns with non-word chars except - and =)

Any help on this would be highly appreciated.

Thanks,

Radhika

shawnhcorey
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Dec 14, 2009, 7:10 AM

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Re: [radhikj] Regex for non-word chars excluding - (minus) and =(equals)

Try:

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/[^-=[:alnum:]]/

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