How to find 24 letters except m and p using regular expressions?

Question

Is it only [a-ln-oq-z]?It seems unscientific and too much of a hassle.

Eugene Tyson · Accepted Answer

If you want to find just lowercase latin characters

This skips numbers

(?=[a-z])(?![mp]).

If you want to include upper and lowercase

(?i)(?=[a-z])(?![mp]).

If you want to inclue any letter from any lanaguge not just latin a-z

(?=\p{L})(?![mp]).

again add (?i) at the start if you want to inlude upper and lower case

This should only catch a-z and not numbers or any other characters

But if you want all characters a-z in all languages then use \p{L}

m1b · Answer

@dublove I think that is the best way. You can also do

[^mp]

but that will find every character except m and p.

So what you have is fine, and probably optimal.

- Mark

P.S. can you please double check the translation of "unscientific"—we don't use it that way. Perhaps you mean "inefficient" or "clumsy"? "Scientific" means about science, so unscientific just means not about science or, more often, about pseudo-science.

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