Thanks for the reply!
"Which means you're using the literal and characters as part of a bigger character class."

Yeah, I sort of figured this out, but hadn't figured a way around it.

You're right, I am trying to match the byte sequences. For somewhat annoying reasons I have to first run a parser over the shiftjis text, then convert it to eucjp, run a utility on that (which only accepts eucjp input) and then output the final product in utf8. I could do what you say, and then convert back to eucjp, but I'm processing a very large amount of data and need to do it in as timely a manner as possible. I'm also just a little bit worried that perhaps there are a couple of shiftjis characters that don't translate properly into utf8 (read about this issue somewhere...) Finally, I just sort of like to know whether this is possible, and if so, how I can accomplish it.

In reply to Re^2: regex: how to negate a set of character ranges? by kettle
in thread regex: how to negate a set of character ranges? by kettle

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