A quote from Camel Book, 3rd Ed., Chapter 5, "Pattern Matching", pg 139, Paragraph 2:

"While most of your data will probably be text strings, there's nothing stopping you from using regexes to search and replace any byte sequence..."

At the end of the same paragraph, there is a reference to Chapt. 15, "Unicode". From all this, I'm guessing a byte sequence RE could be performed with a use bytes pragma within scope of the RE. I'm also guessing that a byte sequence RE will be treated exactly the same as a "text string" RE for most Western European languages. Can someone please confirm my thinking on this?

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In reply to How to perfrom a 'byte sequence' RE? by nysus

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