Negative Character Group: [^] : Match « Regular Expressions « VB.Net Tutorial

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2. Regular Expressions
3. Match

'[^aeiou]  Match all characters except vowels.
'[^\p{P}\d]  Match all characters except punctuation and decimal digit characters.

Imports System.Text.RegularExpressions

Module Example
   Public Sub Main()
      Dim pattern As String = "\bth[^o]\w+\b"
      Dim input As String = "thought thing though them through thus " + _
                            "thorough this"
      For Each match As Match In Regex.Matches(input, pattern)
         Console.WriteLine(match.Value)
      Next
   End Sub
End Module