This updated version need a Unicode::UCD with prop_invlist, which started with perl 5.016

See perlunicode, perluniprops, perlrecharclass, Unicode::UCD, Data::Dump, List::MoreUtils

#!/usr/bin/perl --
use strict;
use warnings;
use Data::Dump qw/ dd pp /;
use List::MoreUtils qw' uniq ';

use Unicode::UCD qw/ prop_invlist /; 

Main( @ARGV );
exit( 0 );

sub uRanges { RangeIt( shift, '\\u%04.4X' ) }
sub pRanges { RangeIt( shift, '\\N{U+%04.4X}' ) }
sub iRanges { RangeIt( shift, '%04.4X', '%04.4X    %04.4X' ) }
sub RangeIt {
    my( $punct , $format1, $format2 ) = @_;
    
    $format1 ||= '\\N{U+%04.4X}';
    $format2 ||= join '-', $format1, $format1;
    
    my @invlist = prop_invlist( $punct );
    unless( @invlist ){
        warn "## empty for $punct \n";
        return;
    }
    
    my @ranges;
    for (my $i = 0; $i < @invlist; $i += 2) {
        my $lower = $invlist[ $i ];
        my $upper = ($i + 1) < @invlist
                    ? $invlist[$i+1] - 1      # In range
                    : $Unicode::UCD::MAX_CP;  # To infinity.  You may 
+want
                                              # to stop much much earl
+ier;
                                              # going this high may ex
+pose
                                              # perl deficiencies with
+ very
                                              # large numbers.
        if( $lower != $upper ){
            push @ranges, sprintf $format2, $lower, $upper;
        } else {
            push @ranges, sprintf $format1, $lower;
        }
    }
    @ranges;
}

sub Main {
    use Getopt::Long qw/ GetOptionsFromArray /;
    my %opt;
    GetOptionsFromArray(
      \@_,
      \%opt,
      q{i|is|in!},
      q{p|perl!},
      q{j|js|java|javascript!},
      q{u|utf!},
      q{h|help!},
    );
    
    $opt{h} and return Usage();
    @_      or  return Usage();
    
    my %rangers = (
        j  => sub { printf "%s => %s\n\n", $_[0], join '', uRanges( $_
+[0] ); },
        p  => sub { printf "%s => %s\n\n", $_[0], join '', pRanges( $_
+[0] ); },
        i  => sub { print qq{sub Is$_[0] { return <<'$_[0]';\n@{[ join
+ "\n", iRanges( $_[0] ) ]}\n$_[0]\n} ## end of Is$_[0]\n\n}; },
        u  => sub { print qq{sub Is$_[0] { return <<'$_[0]';\n+utf8::$
+_[0]\n$_[0]\n} ## end of Is$_[0]\n\n}; },
    );
    $rangers{''} ||= $rangers{j} ;
    
    my $ranger = $rangers{ ( keys %opt )[0] || '' };## ick
    
    for my $k ( uniq @_ ){
        $ranger->( $k );
    }
}

sub Usage {
    print "\nUsage:\n  $0 [ -i -j -u -p ] Punctuation\n";
    print "\n  $0 PerlSpace Title Bopo Dingbats AHex \n";
#~     print "\n  $0 ASCII_Hex_Digit=Yes  ASCII_Hex_Digit=No \n";
    print q{
$ perl unicharproptoregexrange.pl Dingbats
Dingbats => \u2700-\u27BF


$ perl unicharproptoregexrange.pl -j Dingbats
Dingbats => \u2700-\u27BF


$ perl unicharproptoregexrange.pl -p Dingbats
Dingbats => \N{U+2700}-\N{U+27BF}


$ perl unicharproptoregexrange.pl -i Dingbats
sub IsDingbats { return <<'Dingbats';
2700    27BF
Dingbats
} ## end of IsDingbats


$ perl unicharproptoregexrange.pl -u Dingbats
sub IsDingbats { return <<'Dingbats';
+utf8::Dingbats
Dingbats
} ## end of IsDingbats


See     perldoc perluniprops

};;;;;;;
}
__END__
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