Re^3: Reading Reg Exp

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Re^4: Reading Reg Exp by JavaFan (Canon) on Aug 11, 2010 at 10:45 UTC
But even ignoring locale or encoding, it's still not listing 80% of the characters the class can match. That's like saying `[a-z]` matches all the vowels.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^5: Reading Reg Exp by kejohm (Hermit) on Aug 12, 2010 at 07:34 UTC
According to the perlrecharclass manpage: \s matches any single character that is considered whitespace. In the ASCII range, \s matches the horizontal tab (\t), the new line (\n), the form feed (\f), the carriage return (\r), and the space. It also says: Without a locale or EBCDIC code page, \s matches the five characters mentioned in the beginning of this paragraph. Update: Link fixed.	[reply]
Re^6: Reading Reg Exp by JavaFan (Canon) on Aug 12, 2010 at 08:42 UTC
Both cases are talking about matching ASCII characters. The first mentioning ASCII, the second when it's discussing non-UTF8 matching. But the explain of the regex cannot know whether UTF-8 matching is in effect or not, as that will depend on the encoding of the subject string.	[reply]
Re^7: Reading Reg Exp by kejohm (Hermit) on Aug 12, 2010 at 11:55 UTC
Re^5: Reading Reg Exp by choroba (Cardinal) on Aug 11, 2010 at 10:49 UTC
Consonants, rather :)	[reply]
Re^6: Reading Reg Exp by JavaFan (Canon) on Aug 11, 2010 at 10:54 UTC
Out of 26 characters, 5 are vowels (ignoring the fact 'y' and Welsh 'w' sometimes play the role of vowel). Which is about 20% of the characters 'a' to 'z'. `\s` matches 25 characters, but the explain lists 5. So, I did mean vowels where I wrote vowels.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^7: Reading Reg Exp by choroba (Cardinal) on Aug 11, 2010 at 10:57 UTC


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