Re: regular expression

[Teemu Likonen]

Emanuel Berg [2014-06-30 22:13:09 +02:00] wrote:

> Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se> writes:
>> Note that [A-Z] matches [a-z] as well (the lowercase equivalent)
>> unless the variable case-fold-search is nil.
>
> It seems this isn't so. Well, all the better as it is less confusing.
> [A-Za-z] is all the a-z chars in both upper- and lowercase, and [A-Z]
> isn't [a-z].

It's very likely that when one writes [A-Za-z] he actually means "match
any letter". So it's often better to write [[:alpha:]] instead since it
also matches other letters than A-Z. Sometimes a good option is \w which
matches word-constituent characters as defined in the current syntax
table.

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