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Just a quick one this. Thought I’d brush up on my regex today but am having difficulty finding out how to type the hat (^) character using OSX (Leopard).

I can use the character palette to bring up what looks like the character but when it goes into a program for testing out regex patterns it doesn’t work. I have had to copy-paste the character each time from a tutorial on the net. The character that I am typing in using the character palette looks a lot larger and wider than the one I need.

Anyone?

Thanks.

Best wishes,

Mark

Well I’m not on a Mac at the mo but when I was studying French the Alt characters came in handy:

Alt Characters

I found this and I think the character you want is Alt 0136.

I don’t know whether that will work on a Mac but I found this too

Mac Key Chart

Hope this helps

Emily

Hi Emily,

You beat me to the punch. Actually in the end I did find the character and according to the character palette in OSX it is a circumflex accent - Unicode 005E or UTF8: 5E.

Never been brilliant on weird characters me 😉 Found it under the punctuation tab in the character palette in the end though.

Thanks for the help though. Took a look at the second link you posted and it is quite correct that it is Shift-6 that places this character in so thanks for that. Actually I feel quite silly as it is actually printed on the key on my keyboard but I always thought that was the same as the one that I was originally pasting in (UP ARROWHEAD) which wasn’t working. 😊

Best wishes,

Mark

No worries I know what its like it took me ages to learn French accents!

Glad you got it now anyway!

Emily

Thanks again Emily.

Much appreciated.

Now off to bash my head against a wall learning regex!! 😉

Best wishes,

Mark