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Re: character classes & regular expressions

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>>>>> Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> writes:
>>>>> On 2012-05-05, Ivan Shmakov <oneingray@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> writes:
>>>>> On 2012-05-04, Ivan Shmakov <oneingray@gmail.com> wrote:

 > ["Followup-To:" header set to comp.unix.shell.]

	Fow what reason, I wonder?  The issue being discussed has little
	relation to the Unix Shells per se.  (And indeed, you provide an
	example in GNU flex in your own post.)

[...]

 >>>> How do you specify a "single character, either an upper-case
 >>>> letter or a digit" within such a regular expression, then?

 >>> [A-Z0-9]
 >>> [A-Z\d]

 >> It happens that the native languages of the most people of the
 >> world either use extensions to the Latin script (beyond those in
 >> ASCII, such as J or W), or use a script not derived from Latin
 >> at all.  (Greek-based scripts are not uncommon, for instance;
 >> FWIW, the Latin script is based on the Greek one itself.)

 >> Good luck selling your product to anyone speaking French, Greek,
 >> Polish or Russian.

 > Sorry, you're mistaken.  In Russia, France, Poland, Japan, you name
 > it, coders still want [A-Z] to actually denote A-Z.

	Yes.

	Still, they want for a way to denote a "single character, either
	an upper-case letter or a digit", which is precisely what
	[[:upper:][:digit:]] is for (and which is the notation that,
	IIUC, you were opposed to.)

[...]

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character classes & regular expressions Ivan Shmakov <oneingray@gmail.com> - 2012-05-05 09:35 +0700
  Re: character classes & regular expressions Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2012-05-05 02:42 +0000
    Re: character classes & regular expressions Ivan Shmakov <oneingray@gmail.com> - 2012-05-05 10:00 +0700
  Re: character classes & regular expressions Cydrome Leader <presence@MUNGEpanix.com> - 2012-05-06 02:31 +0000
    Re: character classes & regular expressions Ivan Shmakov <oneingray@gmail.com> - 2012-05-06 12:15 +0700
      Re: character classes & regular expressions Cydrome Leader <presence@MUNGEpanix.com> - 2012-05-06 07:47 +0000
        copyright in Russia Ivan Shmakov <oneingray@gmail.com> - 2012-05-10 19:28 +0700

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