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author | Karl Williamson <public@khwilliamson.com> | 2012-12-11 20:47:25 -0700 |
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committer | Karl Williamson <public@khwilliamson.com> | 2012-12-22 11:11:27 -0700 |
commit | 15861f948fe52aa0c72233cd9dfc0190bfa3fbb1 (patch) | |
tree | 68e1d074c5f89237a0bcbc739836c5aac749cac9 /regcomp.h | |
parent | fbc19f27a35cc90f77285a47de2ff0dd21ff50c6 (diff) | |
download | perl-15861f948fe52aa0c72233cd9dfc0190bfa3fbb1.tar.gz |
handy.h: Create isALPHANUMERIC() and kin
Perl has had an undocumented macro isALNUMC() for a long time. I want
to document it, but the name is very obscure. Neither Yves nor I are
sure what it is. My best guess is "C's alnum". It corresponds to
/[[:alnum:]]/, and so its best name would be isALNUM(). But that is the
name long given to what matches \w. A new synonym, isWORDCHAR(), has
been in place for several releases for that, but the old isALNUM()
should remain for backwards compatibility.
I don't think that the name isALNUMC() should be published, as it is too
close to isALNUM(). I finally came to the conclusion that
isALPHANUMERIC() is the best name; it describes its purpose clearly; the
disadvantage is its long length. I doubt that it will get much use, but
we need something, I think, that we can publish to accomplish this
functionality.
This commit also converts core uses of isALNUMC to isALPHANUMERIC. (I
intended to that separately, but made a mistake in rebasing, and
combined the two patches; and it seemed like not a big enough problem to
separate them out again.)
Diffstat (limited to 'regcomp.h')
-rw-r--r-- | regcomp.h | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
@@ -389,8 +389,8 @@ struct regnode_charclass_class { #define ANYOF_NSPACE ((ANYOF_SPACE) + 1) #define ANYOF_DIGIT ((_CC_DIGIT) * 2) /* \d */ #define ANYOF_NDIGIT ((ANYOF_DIGIT) + 1) -#define ANYOF_ALNUMC ((_CC_ALNUMC) * 2) /* [[:alnum:]] isalnum(3), utf8::IsAlnum, ALNUMC */ -#define ANYOF_NALNUMC ((ANYOF_ALNUMC) + 1) +#define ANYOF_ALPHANUMERIC ((_CC_ALPHANUMERIC) * 2) /* [[:alnum:]] isalnum(3), utf8::IsAlnum */ +#define ANYOF_NALPHANUMERIC ((ANYOF_ALPHANUMERIC) + 1) #define ANYOF_ALPHA ((_CC_ALPHA) * 2) #define ANYOF_NALPHA ((ANYOF_ALPHA) + 1) #define ANYOF_ASCII ((_CC_ASCII) * 2) |