2 problems withs regexes and letters like é

Sihal has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Fellow monks,
My first problem is that I would like to match stuff as "é", "à", you know, all this accentuated characters we frog-eaters use ;-)
Well, I can't seem to find the character classes for these.
Here is my two tries, condensed in the same regex:


/^[-'\.\s\w\p{IsWord}\p{IsL}\p{InLatinExtended-A}]+$/
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Moreover, and more surprising, this regex causes the following error:

nvalid [] range "d-A" in regexp at
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Thanks a lot for the help

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Re: 2 problems withs regexes and letters like é by Fletch (Bishop) on Jan 16, 2003 at 18:01 UTC
I don't know if this specifically addresses your problem, but check out `perldoc perllocale` for information on POSIX locale support in perl. I'm pretty sure it covers on how the locale setting interacts with character classes and what not.	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Re: 2 problems withs regexes and letters like é by Sihal (Pilgrim) on Jan 17, 2003 at 09:09 UTC
It seems (I'm not through reading the manpage yet but I start to have a good idea of what is going on) that this will solve my problem. Thanks a lot. `# Solution for matching "é" use locale ; my $test = "é é é é " ; $test =~ /[[:alpha:]]/ and print "YEAH" ; #OR $test =~ /[\w]/ and print "Thanx" ;` [download] Simple for some, hard for me since I didn't even knew of localization. Thank you Fletch! ( and diotalevi and jdporter who answered in the CB. )	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Re: 2 problems withs regexes and letters like é by Sihal (Pilgrim) on Jan 16, 2003 at 18:51 UTC
Ill have a look thanx. Not coming from a computer science, I wasn't aware of locale POSIX	[reply]