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October 30, 2009 04:42
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Re: Rule 1 has been invoked [Re: What should \s \w \d match in 5.12?]
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2009/10/30 David Cantrell <david@cantrell.org.uk>:
> On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 04:39:39PM +0000, Paul LeoNerd Evans wrote:
>> Paul LeoNerd Evans <leonerd@leonerd.org.uk> wrote:
>> > I would suggest
>> > ASCII-only          \w      \d      \s
>> > Includes Unicode    \Uw     \Ud     \Us
>> > Only \U is already used. And \u.
>> Actually then, on that note could we consider some more modifiers?
>> ASCII:   m/\w/a   m/\d/a   m/\s/a
>> Unicode: m/\w/u   m/\d/u   m/\s/u
>> and if neither is specified keep to the existing behaviour..
>
> What if you want \w to match Funny Forn Characters like a-acute and
> alpha and alif, but only want \d to match 0-9?

This is the chief reason i would prefer that \d matches 0-9 only, in
all /modifiers.

But i am resigned to not getting my way on this. :-)

Yves



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