Excluding characters in Regex non-character class

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I am trying to remove all the non-word character in a string, but want to keep punctuation mark, is there a way I can form the regex to do it (in C# 4.0)?

I tried to Google but most of the information I get is about look forward or behind. I also try something like [\W(?^,)] but this is the look forward and if I do [(?=^,)] it will simply meet any characters in (?,=,^ and ,).

David Chan · Accepted Answer · 2012-01-08 06:13:14Z

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search for anything that is ^NOT [a word \w or a question mark ?]

[^\w?]

instead of NOT A WORD (\W) except question mark ?

answered Jan 8, 2012 at 6:13

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fge Over a year ago

To be precise, [^...] is called a complemented character class, or negated character class.

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