Regular expression “^[a-zA-Z]” or “[^a-zA-Z]”

Yes, the first means “match all strings that start with a letter”, the second means “match all strings that contain a non-letter”. The caret (“^”) is used in two different ways, one to signal the start of the text, one to negate a character match inside square brackets.

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