James Edward Gray II wrote:
>
> On Tuesday, September 9, 2003, at 01:28 PM, Dan Muey wrote:
>
> > Looks like it's a Posix thing added in 5.8.0 which is cool and can be
> > written as
> > [:^ascii:]
> > Instead of [^[:ascii:]]
> >
> > Very cool, although it only works on my 5.8.0 and not 5.0
> > (I don't have a 5.6 ish anyone know when the Posix support was added
> > to regexes?)
>
> I don't know the version it was added in, but it works in Perl 5.6.0.
It was added to Perl 5.6.0.
perldoc perldelta
[snip]
POSIX character class syntax [: :] supported
For example to match alphabetic characters use
/[[:alpha:]]/. See the perlre manpage for details.
$ perl -v
This is perl, v5.6.0 built for i586-linux
John
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