On May 4, 2008, at 17:01, Dr.Ruud wrote:
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Ah-ha, perlre is wrong then. It claims that space is 'A GNU extension
equivalent to [ \t] , "all horizontal whitespace"', but that must
only
be true under the bytes pragma.
s/claims that space is/claims that blank is/
Be careful with using the byte pragma in that way, because it modifies
the behaviour of strings that have the utf8 flag on, which means you
are
depending on the internal way that your perl executable implements
strings, IOW asking for trouble.
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Geeze, that is the second time I have misread things. I obviously
need more sleep.
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It's perlbug time.
There are many voices that want to change the meaning of \d to [0-9]
only (from Perl 5.12 on).
Maybe we should get a \pd to be a shortcut for \p{IsDigit}. (idem
for D,
s, S, w, W, etc.)
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I was referring to what I thought was an error in the docs, not an
issue with what it matched; however, I do have an issue with \d. It
makes dealing with numbers you can do math with a pain in the tuckus
([0-9] vs \d).
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