Re: [perl #84680] POSIX::isdigit() returns 1 for the empty string

On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 4:42 AM, Mark Overmeer <mark@overmeer.net> wrote:

> * Mark Overmeer (mark@overmeer.net) [110224 09:25]:
> > The real way the implementation should be described is more like:
> >     isdigit  Returns false if the string only contains digits.
>
> Second attempt
>
>   isdigit
>
>       Returns true when all the bytes in the scalar are values in the
>       digits range of the effective character-set. Does not respect
>       the utf8 flag. Does not work with multi-byte character-sets.
>

What does "not respect the UTF8 flag mean"? Does it mean there's an $x where

utf8::downgrade($dx = $x);
utf8::upgrade($ux = $x);
islower($dx) != islower($ux)

If so, we should fix it rather than documented it.

• [perl #84680] POSIX::isdigit() returns 1 for the empty string by Robert Lang
• Re: [perl #84680] POSIX::isdigit() returns 1 for the empty string by Steve Peters
• Re: [perl #84680] POSIX::isdigit() returns 1 for the empty string by Mark Overmeer
• Re: [perl #84680] POSIX::isdigit() returns 1 for the empty string by Steve Peters
• Re: [perl #84680] POSIX::isdigit() returns 1 for the empty string by Mark Overmeer
• Re: [perl #84680] POSIX::isdigit() returns 1 for the empty string by Mark Overmeer
• Re: [perl #84680] POSIX::isdigit() returns 1 for the empty string by Eric Brine