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This chapter is from the book

Summary

Metacharacters [ and ] are used to define sets of characters, any one of which must match (OR in contrast to AND). Character sets may be enumerated explicitly or specified as ranges using the metacharacter. Character sets may be negated using ^; this forces a match of anything but the specified characters.

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