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author | Karl Williamson <khw@khw-desktop.(none)> | 2010-05-05 12:11:02 -0600 |
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committer | Ricardo Signes <rjbs@cpan.org> | 2011-01-03 18:25:23 -0500 |
commit | ae21b2c6e27a115f93ce1b299fd246daf7b2991a (patch) | |
tree | 41df992af246067b669e0b1f2a2bc6765853b7e4 | |
parent | e1cbe5446ed94af29f1bda8de31590bae3a7bcc1 (diff) | |
download | perl-ae21b2c6e27a115f93ce1b299fd246daf7b2991a.tar.gz |
perlrecharclass: Clarify \p{Punct}, fix for 80 col
While not strictly wrong, the hre was missing info for what \p{Punct}
does.
-rw-r--r-- | pod/perlrecharclass.pod | 22 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perlrecharclass.pod b/pod/perlrecharclass.pod index 047915b108..a9b5ea37c7 100644 --- a/pod/perlrecharclass.pod +++ b/pod/perlrecharclass.pod @@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ character classes, see L<perlrebackslash>.) \V Match a character that isn't vertical whitespace. \N Match a character that isn't a newline. Experimental. \pP, \p{Prop} Match a character that has the given Unicode property. - \PP, \P{Prop} Match a character that doesn't have the given Unicode property + \PP, \P{Prop} Match a character that doesn't have the Unicode property =head3 Digits @@ -594,20 +594,24 @@ of all the alphanumerical characters and all punctuation characters. All printable characters, which is the set of all the graphical characters plus whitespace characters that are not also controls. -=item [5] +=item [5] (punct) C<\p{PosixPunct}> and C<[[:punct:]]> in the ASCII range match all the non-controls, non-alphanumeric, non-space characters: C<[-!"#$%&'()*+,./:;<=E<gt>?@[\\\]^_`{|}~]> (although if a locale is in effect, it could alter the behavior of C<[[:punct:]]>). -When the matching string is in UTF-8 format, C<[[:punct:]]> matches the above -set, plus what C<\p{Punct}> matches. This is different than strictly matching -according to C<\p{Punct}>, because the above set includes characters that aren't -considered punctuation by Unicode, but rather "symbols". Another way to say it -is that for a UTF-8 string, C<[[:punct:]]> matches all the characters that -Unicode considers to be punctuation, plus all the ASCII-range characters that -Unicode considers to be symbols. +C<\p{Punct}> matches a somewhat different set in the ASCII range, namely +C<[-!"#%&'()*,./:;?@[\\\]_{}]>. That is, it is missing C<[$+E<lt>=E<gt>^`|~]>. +This is because Unicode splits what POSIX considers to be punctuation into two +categories, Punctuation and Symbols. + +When the matching string is in UTF-8 format, C<[[:punct:]]> matches what it +matches in the ASCII range, plus what C<\p{Punct}> matches. This is different +than strictly matching according to C<\p{Punct}>. Another way to say it is that +for a UTF-8 string, C<[[:punct:]]> matches all the characters that Unicode +considers to be punctuation, plus all the ASCII-range characters that Unicode +considers to be symbols. =item [6] |