diff --git a/misc.go b/misc.go
index 5028a80..7bbb8eb 100644
--- a/misc.go
+++ b/misc.go
@@ -7,20 +7,9 @@ import (
 var whitespaceChars = []rune{' ', '\t', '\n'}
 var digitChars = []rune{'0', '1', '2', '3', '4', '5', '6', '7', '8', '9'}
 var wordChars = []rune("abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789_")
-var notDotChars = []rune{'\n'}
 var LBRACKET rune = 0xF0000
 var RBRACKET rune = 0xF0001
-var ANY_CHAR rune = 0xF0002 // Represents any character - used for 'dot' metacharacter
-
-func dotChars() []rune { // Returns all possible characters represented by the dot metacharacter - this is too tedious to define as a variable, which is why it is a function
-	start := 0x0020
-	end := 0x007E
-	to_return := make([]rune, (end-start)+1)
-	for i := start; i <= end; i++ {
-		to_return[i-start] = rune(i)
-	}
-	return to_return
-}
+var ANY_CHAR rune = 0xF0002 // Represents any character - used for states where the allChars flag is on.
 
 // Returns true if str[idx] and str[idx-1] are separated by a word boundary.
 func isWordBoundary(str []rune, idx int) bool {