Why would it not match a hyphen then?
On Jun 1, 2011, at 10:40, Joseph Scott <[email protected]> wrote: > Specifically \w matches any "word character". This is explained in > PHP land - http://us3.php.net/manual/en/regexp.reference.escape.php - > as: > > "A "word" character is any letter or digit or the underscore > character, that is, any character which can be part of a Perl "word". > The definition of letters and digits is controlled by PCRE's character > tables, and may vary if locale-specific matching is taking place. For > example, in the "fr" (French) locale, some character codes greater > than 128 are used for accented letters, and these are matched by \w." > > So exactly what \w will match can change depending on the the > environment. That's why it is traditionally described as matching > "word" characters. > > > On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 9:51 AM, Wade Preston Shearer > <[email protected]> wrote: >> The regex shortcode \w is supposed to match 0-9, A-Z, and a-z. It is >> allowing an underscore though. Any ideas why? > > > > -- > Joseph Scott > [email protected] > http://josephscott.org/ _______________________________________________ UPHPU mailing list [email protected] http://uphpu.org/mailman/listinfo/uphpu IRC: #uphpu on irc.freenode.net
