Re: Non alphabet characters

I think what you are looking for is [^\w] - It may be worth your having a read through perlre, from whence I quote ...

A \w matches a single alphanumeric character, not a whole
word.  To match a word you'd need to say \w+.  If use
locale is in effect, the list of alphabetic characters
generated by \w is taken from the current locale.  See the
perllocale manpage. You may use \w, \W, \s, \S, \d, and \D
within character classes (though not as either end of a
range).
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Update - Too little caffiene ... [^\w] is equivalent to \W as Chmrr++ rightly points out below.

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Re: Re: Non alphabet characters by Chmrr (Vicar) on Mar 28, 2002 at 05:42 UTC
`[^\w]` is more canonically written as `\W`. Note that that is a capital W. Also perhaps of note is that \w is equivilent to `[a-zA-Z0-9_]` -- that is, alphanumeric or the underscore; this means that `[^\w]` or `\W` won't catch numbers, which the poster specifically included in their post. Thus, you'd be better off using `[^a-zA-Z]` As always, it's easier to specify what you don't want in a large set, then what you do want. perl -pe '"I lo`+$^X$\"$]!$/"=~m%(.)%s;$_=$1;y^`+*^e v^#$&V"+@( NO CARRIER'	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Re: Re: Non alphabet characters by IlyaM (Parson) on Mar 28, 2002 at 09:45 UTC
Also perhaps of note is that \w is equivilent to `[a-zA-Z0-9_]` It is not true. `\w` is subject of locale settings if locale pragma is in use. See perllocale for more info. It is not always equivilent to `[a-zA-Z0-9_]`. -- Ilya Martynov (http://martynov.org/)	[reply] [d/l] [select]