Re: Is there a special character I here? (Regular Expressions)
| From: | Rasmus Lerdorf | Date: | Fri, 17 Aug 2001 05:07:34 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Is there a special character I here? (Regular Expressions) | ||
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> I am starting on php, coming from Perl. One thing I really like on the way
> we can use regex in Perl is the shorthand:
>
> \w --> [a-zA_Z0-9_]
> \W --> [^a-zA_Z0-9_]
> \d --> [0-9]
> \D --> [^0-9]
> \s --> white space characters
> ...
>
> Is this shorthand handled in php?
Sure, all the preg* functions take Perl-style regular expressions like
that. Read the manual: http://php.net/pcre
-Rasmus