Isn't a carrot at the beginning of a character class a negation? Like !
before a boolean expression?  Did you try escaping it?

-John
On Jan 21, 2014 9:37 PM, "Jeff Anderson" <[email protected]> wrote:

> It looks like a lone ^ by itself in a character class is a syntax error:
>
> $ echo '^^^^^^^' | pcregrep '[^]'
> pcregrep: Error in command-line regex at offset 3: missing terminating ]
> for character class
>
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