Re: Can I change the definition of '\s'?

It can be done using a source filter.

package Filter::BackslashS;
use Filter::Simple;
use strict;

FILTER_ONLY regex => { s/\\s/[\\s\xA0]/g };
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use Filter::BackslashS;

print "\xA0" =~ /\s/ ? "Yay!\n" : "Hmmm\n";
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Please note that this only changes the meaning of \s in literal regexes.

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Re2: Can I change the definition of '\s'? by blakem (Monsignor) on Sep 12, 2002 at 03:52 UTC
I think you missed a `sub` keyword in there... `FILTER_ONLY regex => sub { s/\\s/[\\s\xA0]/g };` [download] Also, this wont always work, since perl cannot nest character classes. What about these (albeit contrived) tests? `print "\xA0" =~ /[A-Z\s]/ ? "Yay!\n" : "Hmmm\n"; print '[]' !~ /[A-Z\s]/ ? "Yay!\n" : "Hmmm\n";` [download] -Blake	[reply] [d/l] [select]