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.

 

In reply to Re: Non alphabet characters by rob_au
in thread [untitled node, ID 154894] by Samn

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