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| From: | Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-user@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | Re: [gentoo-user] Need help with a regex | ||
| Date: | Sat, 24 May 2008 17:06:59 | ||
| Message-Id: | 200805241905.38180.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com | ||
| In Reply to: | Re: [gentoo-user] Need help with a regex by Robin Atwood |
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| 1 | On Saturday 24 May 2008, Robin Atwood wrote: |
| 2 | > On Saturday 24 May 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
| 3 | > > On Saturday 24 May 2008, Robin Atwood wrote: |
| 4 | > > > But why does "[[:space:]]+" work and "\s+" fail? |
| 5 | > > |
| 6 | > > Apparently because \s is not a synonym for [[:space:]] |
| 7 | > |
| 8 | > Here for a start: |
| 9 | > http://www.regular-expressions.info/charclass.html#shorthand |
| 10 | > |
| 11 | > and also |
| 12 | > http://doc.trolltech.com/3.3/qregexp.html#characters-and-abbreviation |
| 13 | >s-for-sets-of-characters |
| 14 | > |
| 15 | > Is it a Perl thing? Probably! |
| 16 | > http://www.troubleshooters.com/codecorn/littperl/perlreg.htm#DoingStr |
| 17 | >ingComparisons |
| 18 | |
| 19 | Ah yes, it's the old: |
| 20 | |
| 21 | grep/sed/awk/vi/perl-implement-regexes-identically-except-when-they-don't |
| 22 | thing again! |
| 23 | |
| 24 | |
| 25 | -- |
| 26 | Alan McKinnon |
| 27 | alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
| 28 | |
| 29 | -- |
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