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RE: What should \s \w \d match in 5.12?

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From:
Jan Dubois
Date:
October 5, 2009 12:37
Subject:
RE: What should \s \w \d match in 5.12?
Message ID:
014001ca45f3$3c24e1e0$b46ea5a0$@com
On Mon, 05 Oct 2009, demerphq wrote:
> And this is why we really really want \w and \s and \d to match the
> traditional thing, even if this means requiring people add something
> to older scripts to support the legacy behaviour. You cant tell what a
> pattern does by looking at it, you have to know the internal bit flags
> of the string involved.

Just to be sure: \b will continue to be defined based on \w and \W
and change its behavior as well, right?  I'm only asking because \b is
not explicitly listed in this discussion.

Cheers,
-Jan
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