From: | "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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To: | Erwin Brandstetter <brsaweda(at)gmail(dot)com> |
Cc: | pgsql-docs <pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: \W excludes underscore |
Date: | 2019-05-08 01:41:30 |
Message-ID: | CAKFQuwYzpnir33sqCScp-b=mSODm-65s=EMrDrUXKTMY54QCjA@mail.gmail.com |
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On Tue, May 7, 2019 at 4:36 PM Erwin Brandstetter <brsaweda(at)gmail(dot)com>
wrote:
>
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/functions-matching.html#POSIX-CLASS-SHORTHAND-ESCAPES-TABLE
> Table 9.19. Regular Expression Class-shorthand Escape:
>
> > \w [[:alnum:]_] (note underscore is included)
> > ...
> > \W [^[:alnum:]_] (note underscore is included)
>
> This is misleading as \w *includes* underscore, but \W *excludes* it. I
> suggest:
>
Its saying that the underscore is one of the characters that is included in
the exclusion, alongside the alphabetical characters.
> \w [[:alnum:]_] (underscore is included)
> ...
> \W [^[:alnum:]_] (underscore is excluded)
>
>
Or just "note the underscore"
The reader is already assumed to know that the capital letters and the
leading ^ in the bracket denote exclusion since its doesn't call out that
specifically.
David J.
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