Question on how to manipulate terms in this expression

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sorry for the vague title, i dont know how else to express what i mean with this question. But what i need to do is find out which terms on the RHS of the expression are constants. It is clear that it would be when $j=k$ but The sum $j$ goes from $0$ to $k-c$ when $k-c \geq c$ or $j$ goes from $0$ to $c$ if $k-c \leq c$. So it is hard for me to find the terms that would be absent of $\ln(x)$ terms.

$$\sum_{k=1}^n (-1)^{n-k}{n \brack k} = \sum_{k=1}^n \left(\ln(x)^{k} \frac{(-1)^{n+k}}{k!} \rho(n,k)\right)+ (\frac{1}{2})^n + \\ (-1)^n\sum_{c=1}^{n-1} \sum_{k=c}^n \sum_j \frac{(-1)^{c+k}(\ln(x))^{k-j} \phi(n,k)}{j!(c-j)!(k-c-j)!} $$ Note that $\phi(n,k)$ and $\rho(n,k)$ do not contain any $\ln(x)$ terms.