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| author | Karl Williamson <public@khwilliamson.com> | 2010-10-30 15:20:24 -0600 |
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| committer | Father Chrysostomos <sprout@cpan.org> | 2010-10-31 12:21:05 -0700 |
| commit | d35dd6c678badc24d545f8b7b7a3ebdf0fb0b355 (patch) | |
| tree | 1c403ccacc67a1338697eb9b483d81b31273cf34 /pod/perlreref.pod | |
| parent | cbc24f92709e23449028ec3036bda16c0af294fb (diff) | |
| download | perl-d35dd6c678badc24d545f8b7b7a3ebdf0fb0b355.tar.gz | |
DOCs: Clarify that \w matches marks and \Pc
The previous documentation really didn't specify what \w is. It matches
the underscore, but also all other connector punctuation, plus any
marks, such as diacritical accents that occur within a word.
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1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perlreref.pod b/pod/perlreref.pod index 4805c9bdaf..5247a637ca 100644 --- a/pod/perlreref.pod +++ b/pod/perlreref.pod @@ -170,8 +170,9 @@ POSIX character classes and their Unicode and Perl equivalents: space PosixSpace XPosixSpace [\s\cK] Whitespace PerlSpace XPerlSpace \s Perl's whitespace def'n upper PosixUpper XPosixUpper Uppercase characters - word PerlWord XPosixWord \w Alnum + '_' (Perl - extension) + word PerlWord XPosixWord \w Alnum + Unicode marks + + connectors, like '_' + (Perl extension) xdigit ASCII_Hex_Digit XPosixDigit Hexadecimal digit, ASCII-range is [0-9A-Fa-f] |