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Re: Difference between \\w and [:word:]?
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Eric Abrahamsen |
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Re: Difference between \\w and [:word:]? |
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Fri, 08 Jun 2018 08:05:44 -0700 |
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Yuri Khan <yurivkhan@gmail.com> writes:
> On Fri, Jun 8, 2018 at 4:17 PM Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> > It definitely felt a little weird writing something like
>> > "\\w[[:word:]-']+", where we're required to use two different notations
>> > for the same match.
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>> Nothing prevents you from writing
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>> [[:word:]][[:word:]-']+
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> Or even
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> (rx wordchar (any wordchar ?- ?'))
I know, I know -- there are many ways to skin this cat, and for some
reason I went straight for one that didn't work. Thanks to all for the
other suggestions.
Eric