...well, yeah. But if you ask me an "alphabet" regex (in any alphabet) has pretty limited utility. I've always used /\w/ which at least in Perl 5.6 is Internationalized (I think.)

And without sparking any huge debate on the merits of internationalization everyone should program to the type of data they expect to have to deal with. If the poster's code is going to be used in an environment of all-English speakers there's no internationalization problem at all. If it's in a CGI on the Internet he/she may want to consider other options. Limiting code to one language is not prima facia a bad thing... internationalization is just one more area to optimize if you need it.

Gary Blackburn
Trained Killer

In reply to Re: Re: isAlpha / isNumeric by Trimbach
in thread isAlpha / isNumeric by Jamnet

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