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Diffstat (limited to 'handy.h')
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1 files changed, 8 insertions, 5 deletions
@@ -445,11 +445,6 @@ platforms, they use the code page of the platform. The code pages that Perl knows about all have 8-bit characters, so most of these functions will return true for more characters than on ASCII platforms. -=for apidoc Am|bool|isALNUM|char ch -Returns a boolean indicating whether the specified character is an -alphanumeric character (including underscore) in the platform's native -character set. - =for apidoc Am|bool|isALPHA|char ch Returns a boolean indicating whether the specified character is an alphabetic character in the platform's native character set. @@ -474,6 +469,14 @@ whitespace character in the platform's native character set. Returns a boolean indicating whether the specified character is an uppercase character in the platform's native character set. +=for apidoc Am|bool|isWORDCHAR|char ch +Returns a boolean indicating whether the specified character is a +character that is any of: alphabetic, numeric, or an underscore. This is the +same as what C<\w> matches in a regular expression. +C<isALNUM()> is a synonym provided for backward compatibility. Note that it +does not have the standard C language meaning of alphanumeric, since it matches +an underscore and the standard meaning does not. + =head1 Character case changing =for apidoc Am|char|toUPPER|char ch |