Regular Expressions - Match Single Characters Not Specified

JavaScript
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Tell us what’s happening:
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Your code so far

let quoteSample = "3 blind mice.";
let myRegex = /[^aeiou^0-9]/gi; // Change this line
let result = quoteSample.match(myRegex); // Change this line

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Challenge: Regular Expressions - Match Single Characters Not Specified

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I know that this code is right, what i wish to know is why other stuff that i tried doesn’t

Like [^a-u0-9]
or [^a-u^0-9]

Thanks

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The problem is with ^a-u – what does a-u represent in a regular expression?

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have a look at the output and see what different regex are doing:

console.log(result)

maybe try on the string 'abcd...xyz' etc

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I got it with your answer on my other topic.
Thank you very much

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Truly a good way to understand my mistake. Thank you

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