On Wed, Oct 05, 2011 at 06:58:00PM +0200, Lřseth Tor Rafsol wrote:

> I have a list of words that are separated by carriage returns.
> This finds words that are 6 characters long:
> ^[\w]{6}$
> 
> Any suggestion on how to negate this expression so that it finds all the 
> words that are not 6 characters long?

If you think about it another way, you want to find words that are either
1-5 characters long or 7+ characters long:

^(?:\w{1,5}|\w{7,})$

Ronald

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