RegEx- first character should not contain special characters and subsequent characters should not contain few special characters

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I have a specific validation scenario.

The first character of the string should not contain special characters which I can achieve using /^[!@#$%^&*()_+\-=\[\]{};':"\\|,.<>\/?]+$/

But subsequent characters should not contain specific special characters, which are !@$%^*+=\[\]{};:\\|<>?

I tried that using regex /^[!@#$%^&*()_+\-=\[\]{};':"\\|,.<>\/?][!@$%^*+=\[\]{};:\\|<>?]+$/ and negating the result but its not working.

I want to allow all other characters other than these special characters so I am trying to negate the result of above regex.

What I mean is, first character should accept everything except special character and subsequent chars should accept everything except specified special characters.

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You were close. Just missing using ^ inside a character class to negate it, and maybe + instead of * to allow an empty string.

Match start of string: ^
Match a single character that's not one of !@#$%^&*()_+-=[]{};':"|,.<>/?: [^!@#$%^&*()_+\-=\[\]{};':"\\|,.<>\/\?]
Match a string of any length that doesn't contain one of !@$%^*+=[]{};:|<>?: [^!@$%^*+=\[\]{};:\\|<>\?]*
Match end of string: $

Complete regex: ^[^!@#$%^&*()_+\-=\[\]{};':"\\|,.<>\/\?][^!@$%^*+=\[\]{};:\\|<>\?]*$

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