Char range

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Re: Char range by fglock (Vicar) on Jun 29, 2003 at 00:53 UTC
You can use the `[:punct:]` character class (see perlre) `perl -e ' for(0..255){ print chr($_) if chr($_)=~/[[:punct:]]/; } '` output: !"#$%&'()*+,-./:;<=>?@[\]^_`{\|}~	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Char range by The Mad Hatter (Priest) on Jun 29, 2003 at 00:16 UTC
Well, in a regex it would be something the character class `[^a-zA-Z0-9\s]`. For doing loops, you'll probably just have to create a list, something like `qw/! @ # $ % ^ & * ( ) ?/`.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Char range by tcf22 (Priest) on Jun 29, 2003 at 06:25 UTC
Looks like you could be writing a script for password validation. Don't know if this will help, but I recently used this for password validation(1 letter, 1 number, 1 symbol(!@#$%^&*()?). `if(($new_password !~ /\d/) \|\| ($new_password !~ /[a-zA-Z]/) \|\| ($new_password !~ /\W/) \|\| (length($new_password) < 6)){ ...BAD PASSWORD... {` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Char range by Anonymous Monk on Jun 29, 2003 at 16:10 UTC
if you mean "every possible value in the 8 bit ASCII set" then you want `[\x00-\xff].` if you mean "every non-alphanumeric, non-whitespace char (and "_")" then you want \W. But you probably mean "every char i care about" in which case i suggest you sit down and just decide what you want. update (broquaint): added formatting	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Char range by Not_a_Number (Prior) on Jun 29, 2003 at 19:54 UTC
...what can I use for every character? `/.+/` perldoc perlre: `. Match any character (except newline)` hth, dave	[reply] [d/l] [select]