Chas. Owens wrote on 05/19/2009 04:02 PM:
>> ($a,$n,$x,$y)) = $item =~ /(.{5})\.(\d\d?)[-+](\d{1,4})\.(\d{1,4})/;
> snip
>
> As of Perl 5.8 \d no longer matches [0-9]. It now matches any UNICODE
> character that has the digit property. This includes characters such
> as "\x{1815}" (MONGOLIAN DIGIT FIVE). You must use [0-9] if you mean
> [0-9] or use the bytes pragma[1] to return the old meaning of \d (but
> this breaks all UNICODE processing in the scope you declare it).
Oh, I didn't know that. Thanks for pointing that out.
But in most scenarios \d will still work, right? I mean, how often do
you actually encounter the Mongolian Digit Five in real life data?
bye
Alex
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