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laputa

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how can you write a regular expression to check whether a scalar variable contains "Any other character on the keyboard bsides a whitespace character and double-quotes, and single-quotes"?
 
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Laputa,

Sorry to be suspicious -- but is this a college or Uni assignment? Mike
michael.j.lacey@ntlworld.com
Email welcome if you're in a hurry or something -- but post in tek-tips as well please, and I will post my reply here as well.
 
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/[^\s]|[^"]|[^']/

this worked for me adam@aauser.com
 
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