in reply to Re^2: Regex for weird characters
in thread Regex for weird characters

you could shorten Skeeve's regex further using character classes, acutally it's the same length cause I added spaces ;)

$text =~ /[^\w\d\s,]/;

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Update: switched /w for \w (++ to graff for pointing out my typo)

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Re^4: Regex for weird characters
by DrHyde (Prior) on Sep 28, 2004 at 09:00 UTC
    You absolutely can not use perl's shortcut character classes. \w matches different things depending on your locale. If you have a German locale, for instance, it will match ß.
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