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Re: character classes & regular expressions

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In comp.unix.shell Ivan Shmakov <oneingray@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> writes:
>>>>>> On 2012-05-04, Ivan Shmakov <oneingray@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> writes:
> 
>        [Cross-posting to news:comp.text, for the subject being
>        discussed is hardly specific to Unix shells; really, this time.]
> 
> [...]
> 
> >>> In my defense, I've never used this committee-designed dog of a
> >>> syntax until today, which was only because I was groping for a
> >>> quick workaround, and likely never will again.
> 
> >>> (I also refuse to implement it in my regex engine, though I have
> >>> caved in to Perl's \w, \d, \s, \W, \D and \S, which is probably as
> >>> far as I will go.)
> 
> >> 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.

like greeks have money to buy software or a russian has ever made a legit 
software purchase.

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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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