What regex will match every character except comma ',' or semi-colon ';'?

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Kshitij Saxena -KJ- picture Kshitij Saxena -KJ- · Sep 11, 2009 · Viewed 390.8k times · Source

Is it possible to define a regex which will match every character except a certain defined character or set of characters?

Basically, I wanted to split a string by either comma (,) or semi-colon (;). So I was thinking of doing it with a regex which would match everything until it encountered a comma or a semi-colon.

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Mehrdad Afshari picture Mehrdad Afshari · Sep 11, 2009 
[^,;]+

You haven't specified the regex implementation you are using. Most of them have a Split method that takes delimiters and split by them. You might want to use that one with a "normal" (without ^) character class:

[,;]+

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