On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 6:05 PM, ik <ido...@gmail.com> wrote: > try this > > #!/usr/bin/env perl -w > # > > use v5.14; > use utf8; > > my $text = 'שלוabv'; > > if ($text =~ /^[\x{5D0}-\x{5ea}]{3}/) { > say "yes"; > } else { > say "no"; > }
I'd probably use \p{IsHebrew} or \p{InHebrew} instead of the hexa code. Check here: http://perldoc.perl.org/perluniprops.html to learn way more than you'd probably want to :) I also CC-ed Meir Guttman who is *the* Perl Unicode expert. He might have something more correct to suggest. Gabor _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il