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On Sat, 24 May 2008 17:57:45 +0200 |
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Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Saturday 24 May 2008, Robin Atwood wrote: |
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> > But why does "[[:space:]]+" work and "\s+" fail? |
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> Apparently because \s is not a synonym for [[:space:]] |
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As Robin's already pointed out, \s is part of Perl's regex syntax. If |
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you've compiled grep with the pcre useflag, you can use grep -P |
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> I've heard this one before but never got it to work and never seen it |
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> in writing. Do you have a reference for where you read it? |
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If you've emerged libpcre, then man pcrepattern has all the gory |
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details. |
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A lot of regular expressions floating around the interweb use pcre |
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syntax, because libpcre has been ported to Windows. E.g., several |
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Windows newsreaders use it for scoring. |
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»Q« |
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Kleeneness is next to Gödelness. |
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