From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2001-08-22T00:34:19+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:20059] Re: Regexp for japanese characters

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:20056] Regexp for japanese characters"
    on 01/08/21, Slava Kravchenko <arachis@gmx.net> writes:

|Is there a special symbol in the regexp to substitute
|kanji/katakana/hiragana (japanese characters)? (Like, say, "\k" or
|something ;)

Considering its origin, pretty suprisingly, the answer is no.
You can emulate it by character class though. /[a-zA-Z]/
with replacing a with "Hiragana a" z with "Hiragana n", etc.

Oh, I wish I can write Japanese characters directly here.

|If no, could anyone help me with a short example to create one by *ahem*
|overriding the Regexp class? (Yes, I'm pretty sure I want it in the
|regexp :)

If you really want something like \k, and not satisfied with the
emulation above, hack the code.

							matz.