The following examples illustrate the matching of patterns outside a range of characters. The presence of the caret ( ^ ) character after the left bracket and before the range pattern indicates that a match occurs when a character is not within the specified range. For example, [^4-9] indicates any character outside the range of '4' through '9'.
| Pattern | Searched String | Result |
|---|---|---|
| CUST[^4-9]FIL | CUST1FIL | Match |
| CUST[^4-9]FIL | CUST2FIL | Match |
| CUST[^4-9]FIL | CUST6FIL | No match |
| CUS1FL[^A-Z] | CUST1FLA | No match |
| CUST1FL[^a-z] | cust1fla | No match |
| CUS1FL[^A-Z] | CUST1FL4 | Match |
| CUST1FL[^A-Z] | CUST1FLX | No match |
| CUST1FL[^a-z] | CUST1FLB | Match |
| CUST1FL[^a-z] | CUST1FLc | No match |
| CUST1FL[^a-z] | CUST1FL3 | Match |
| CUST1FL[^4-9A-D] | CUST1FL4 | No match |
| CUST1FL[^4-9A-D] | CUST1FLW | Match |
| CUST1FL[^4-9A-D] | CUST1FLg | Match |
| cust1fl[^4-8a-e] | CUST1FLA | No match |