> The caret at the start of a character class negates the
> sense of the class, so /[abcd]/ matches a character which is 
> any one of the four letters 'a', 'b', 'c' or 'd'. /[^abcd]/ 
> will match any single character except these four. In the expression

Ooooooohhhh yeah the brackets change the carrot. What a monkey I am.
Thanks Rob for the clarification once again. 
Dan

> 
>   ($string = 'abcd foo monkey') =~ s/[^abcd]/ /g;
> 
> the regex matches four times - once for each of the first
> four characters.

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