Re: [FWP] TPJ One-Liner #39

[Peter Haworth <pmh@edison.ioppublishing.com>]

Ronald J Kimball cleverly spotted my stupid mistake:
> On Fri, Jul 09, 1999 at 01:43:30PM +0100, Peter Haworth wrote:
> > 
> > If you want to internationalize (or at least localize) the regexp,
> > can't you do this?
> >   /\b\w(?<![\d_])\w*/
> > 
> > I can't test that because my perl isn't recent enough, so how about this?
> >   /\b(?![\d_])\w+/
> > Note + instead of *
> > 
> 
> Which is the part that makes it only match uppercase letters?  ;)

Oops!

OK then. Try using POSIX character classes once they're available:
  /\b[:upper:]\w*/

-- 
	Peter Haworth	pmh@edison.ioppublishing.com
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