Re: utf weirdness in regex

/^[\w\s.]+$/ is equivilant to /^.+$/, right? I suspect the trailing period in the class is not what you intended.

No Idea about the unicode fun with $string1, though.

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Re^2: utf weirdness in regex by december (Pilgrim) on Jul 24, 2004 at 04:28 UTC
No, it's only any_letter and spaces (I hope). It's supposed to check that a filename only consists of letters (as opposed to control characters, which I'm filtering for). The trailing period is supposed to be there for the dot in the filename. Unicode makes things hard. :)	[reply]
Re^3: utf weirdness in regex by hbo (Monk) on Jul 24, 2004 at 05:52 UTC
But the period matches any character if it isn't escaped. `/[\w\s\.]+/ # one or more word, space or period characters /[\w\s.]+/ # one or more word. space or any characters /.+/ # same as above` [download] `"Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." - Will Rogers`	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: utf weirdness in regex by kelan (Deacon) on Jul 26, 2004 at 21:12 UTC
Note that inside a character class, a period is not special: it means just period. So this: `/[\w\s.]+/` [download] would match one or more of (word chars, space chars, periods) in any combination. In other words, your first two examples are equivalent, not your second two.	[reply] [d/l]