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| author | Jeffrey Friedl <jfriedl@regex.info> | 2001-07-20 15:59:25 -0700 |
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| committer | Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> | 2001-07-22 14:51:14 +0000 |
| commit | e378c047dd913f3f75f4b040edf9593573737085 (patch) | |
| tree | 59cb2fbf3831c90044317427799e19e8bbb46321 /ext | |
| parent | b333426c2fe36826d162c623c60ffd9945f557d9 (diff) | |
| download | perl-e378c047dd913f3f75f4b040edf9593573737085.tar.gz | |
Re: [ID 20010720.010] WHere's [:isprint:]?
Message-Id: <200107210559.WAA09160@ventrue.corp.yahoo.com>
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@11440
Diffstat (limited to 'ext')
| -rw-r--r-- | ext/POSIX/POSIX.pod | 7 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/ext/POSIX/POSIX.pod b/ext/POSIX/POSIX.pod index 992b2e594a..350f897abc 100644 --- a/ext/POSIX/POSIX.pod +++ b/ext/POSIX/POSIX.pod @@ -617,7 +617,7 @@ C</[[:graph:]]/> construct instead. This is identical to the C function, except that it can apply to a single character or to a whole string. Consider using regular expressions and the -C</[[:lower:]]/> construct instead. Do B<not> use C</a-z/>. +C</[[:lower:]]/> construct instead. Do B<not> use C</[a-z]/>. =item isprint @@ -636,12 +636,15 @@ C</[[:punct:]]/> construct instead. This is identical to the C function, except that it can apply to a single character or to a whole string. Consider using regular expressions and the C</[[:space:]]/> construct instead, or the C</\s/> construct. +(Note that C</\s/> and C</[[:space:]]/> are slightly different in that +C</[[:space:]]/> can normally match a vertical tab, while C</\s/> does +not.) =item isupper This is identical to the C function, except that it can apply to a single character or to a whole string. Consider using regular expressions and the -C</[[:upper:]]/> construct instead. Do B<not> use C</A-Z/>. +C</[[:upper:]]/> construct instead. Do B<not> use C</[A-Z]/>. =item isxdigit |