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What are negated character classes that are used in Python regular expressions?
We come across negated character classes in Python regular expressions.
An regex of ‘[abdfgh]’ matches any single character which is one of ‘a’, ‘b’, ‘d’, ’f’, ’g’ or ‘h’. This is termed a character class.
An regex of ‘[^abdfgh]’ will match any single character which is NOT one of ‘a’, ‘b’, ‘d’, ’f’, ’g’ or ‘h’. This is a negated character class, and is indicated by the ‘^’ character at the start of the character class.
The character ‘^’ has a special meaning at the start of the character class. if it is used elsewhere in that character class it simply means a ‘^’ character.
Negated character classes work with any of the character classes :
The ranges [0–9] match a single digit character, [^0–9] matches any single character that isn’t a digit.
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