Re^2: Matching numbers by regex. (remember \D)

In the above code (and in the other replies in the thread),

  [^\d]*
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may be represented with

  \D*
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and will be more efficient as well, since it avoids calls to utf8::IsDigit internally.

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Re^3: Matching numbers by regex. (remember \D) by GrandFather (Saint) on Apr 19, 2006 at 10:34 UTC
Heh, good point! I do tend to forget the uppercase versions of the character set match flags such as `\D \W \S`. Thanks for the reminder. DWIM is Perl's answer to Gödel	[reply] [d/l]