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Regular Expressions: Negating a Pattern

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The ^ character at the beginning of a pattern anchors it to the beginning of a string.

Used inside a range, it negates the range, so:

/[^A-Za-z0-9]/.test('a') //❌
/[^A-Za-z0-9]/.test('1') //❌
/[^A-Za-z0-9]/.test('A') //❌
/[^A-Za-z0-9]/.test('@') //✅

Lessons in this unit:

0: Introduction
1: Introduction
2: Anchoring
3: Match Items in Ranges
4: Matching a Range Item Multiple Times
5: ▶︎ Negating a Pattern
6: Meta Characters
7: Regular Expressions Choices
8: Quantifiers
9: Optional Items
10: Groups
11: Capturing Groups
12: Using match and exec Without Groups
13: Noncapturing Groups
14: Flags
15: Inspecting a Regex
16: Escaping
17: String Boundaries
18: Replacing
19: Greediness
20: Lookaheads
21: Lookbehinds
22: Unicode
23: Unicode Property Escapes
24: Examples