Re^2: Why does \w include numbers and underscore?

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Perl has supported [^\W\d] forever. One of my favorites is [^\S\n] (any whitespace character but newline).

(update) I wasn't trying to argue against nor diminish your proposed patch. I just wanted to mention this solution to this problem which didn't appear to be covered in the thread yet.

- tye

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Re: Re^2: Why does \w include numbers and underscore? by japhy (Canon) on Apr 22, 2004 at 03:01 UTC
Yeah, but those are simple cases. I'm looking for scalability. _____________________________________________________ Jeff`[japhy]`Pinyan: Perl, regex, and perl hacker, who'd like a job (NYC-area) `s++=END;++y(;-P)}y js++=;shajsj<++y(p-q)}?print:??;`	[reply]

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