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Hi,

I'm trying to get a regular expression to match or not match depending on whether there is a punctuation character at the end of a line. For example:

A line of text. (ends in a punctuation character)

A line of text (doesn't)

\A *.*[[:punct:]]+ *\Z matches the first line but not the second (which is what I hoped would happen). However

\A *.*[[^:punct:]] *\Z doesn't match either.

Any one know what I'm doing wrong here?

Thanks!

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Post 4 or 5 lines of the text and tell us what you need returned. [:punct:] IS puntuation. One of your problems could be the [[^:punct:]]. without your text I won't be checking it but it's probably [^[:punct:]]

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Moving the ^ outside the square bracket works - thanks for that! I only put it inside because the StringRegExp documentation says:

[^:class:] Match any character not in the class, but only if the first character.

Which is kind of confusing!

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