From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2002-03-25T03:11:33+09:00
Subject: Re: Unicode in Regexp (a question)

Hi,

At Mon, 25 Mar 2002 02:37:45 +0900,
Sean Russell wrote:
> > I guess you may need UTF-8 string not but RE.
> > 
> >   puts /\A([^<]*)/u.match("K\xc3\xb6ln</test>")[0]
> 
> No, say I want to specifically match the character 0x0531... how do I 
> specify that in the regular expression?  IE, does the following do what I'd 
> expect it to do?
> 
>    re = /\x05\x31/u

If you mean U+0531, use a string once.

  re = /#{"\xe3\x84\x85"}/uo

Multibyte literal in RE is pending too.

-- 
Nobu Nakada