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am I being a bit slow? Why doesn't [^g-z] work on 'ranges'?

• martinml 13y ago
  Because for example "beam" matches [^g-z]. That is, it has a letter somewhere that is not between g and z (namely e and a). I came up with ^[a-f]+$ but I'm guessing it could be shorter :) Edit: ah, every word in left column has 4 a-f letters. So [a-f]{4} is a shorter match.
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  • joelanman 13y ago
    ah you're right :) I was being slow, what I thought I wrote was 'words consisting only of letters that arent g-z'
• bluedino 13y ago
  Another dumb question - why does 'beam' not match [bdf][ae] ?
  • maxerickson 13y ago
    It's complaining because it does match.
    • bluedino 13y ago
      Oh. I told you it was a dumb question.