From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2009-07-13T18:48:19+09:00
Subject: Re: The easiest way to separate substrings from a line string

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Hi --

On Mon, 13 Jul 2009, Dave Burt wrote:

> Moving off-topic from the thread, but David Black wrote:
>> ... /\w+/ (or maybe /[^\W\d_]+/ or something).
>
> Do people actually say /[^\W\d_]/ instead of /[a-z]/i? The latter is
> much easier for me to read. Does the former include non-latin
> word-characters?

Yes:

>> s = "\u00e9"
=> "�"
>> /\w/.match(s)
=> #<MatchData "�">
>> /[a-z]/.match(s)
=> nil

Another choice would be:

   /[[:alpha:]]/

which I believe would do the same thing that my character class did
(unless there are some exclusions, inclusions, or edge cases I'm not
remembering).


David

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