Perl knows about a lot of posix character classes because you can match against them with the regex library. But what if you want to reverse that? I would like to iterate the characters that belong to a named character class, and take advantage of Perl's knowledge rather than building massive lists of my own. I would also like to avoid brute-force solutions like iterating every character and testing each for membership in the set.
Does anyone know if there is a good way to do this? Ideally quick enough to look up random members of the set in log(n) time or better.
Example of a Not-Good way to do this:
my @alpha= grep /[[:alpha:]]/, map chr, 0..0xEFFFF;
return $alpha[rand scalar @alpha];
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