Precise definition depends on the language.
Mastering Regular Expressions, 2nd Ed., Jeffery E. F. Friedll, published by O'Reilly characterizes\w in its "Common Metacharacters..." chapter, this way:
Part-of_word character Often the same as [a-zA-Z0-9_], although some ools omit the underscore, while others include all the extraalphanumerics characters in the locale. If Unicode is supported, \w usually refers to all alphanumerics (notable exception: Sun's Java regex package whose \w is exactly [a-zA-Z0-9_</c>).
Regular Expressions Pocket Reference (also from O'Reilly) defines \w as:
- \p{IsWord} for Perl
- and as [A-Za-z0-9_] for Java.
Regretably, the definition of \p{isWord} -- [_\p{L1}\p{Lu}\p{Lt}\p{Lo}\p{Nd} -- is, for me, almost impenetrable but Friedll's characterization may be as good as you'll get without deep study of perlretut and friends.
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