alt Hacker NewsTIL about [^], never seen that before. Apparently, it works like a dot but it also matches newlines.
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gmac • today at 12:50 PM
Oh, me too. I’ve previously used [\s\S] for that.
TIL about [^], never seen that before. Apparently, it works like a dot but it also matches newlines.
Oh, me too. I’ve previously used [\s\S] for that.
I believe this is the regular syntax for a set of characters (between "[" and "]"), but the caret symbol ("^") is negation when used inside the set. Therefore, it is simply the negation of an empty set of characters.