From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2001-01-04T10:23:04+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:8609] Re: Character classes in Ruby regexp

"Robert Gustavsson" <robertg@swipnet.se> writes:

> Dave writes:
> 
> >Them brackets'll get you every time. btw. I believe Matz is
> >deprecating the :xxx: character classes (which is why we didn't
> >document them).
> 
> I think it is a shame because it makes regex pattern just slightly more
> readable.

Remember that Ruby has the equivalent \w, \W, \d, \D and so on.



Dave