I'm not sure which regEx engine the example link uses, but the ColdFusion regEx engine defines \w as matching alpha-numeric characters only. In my experience, that's also how it behaves.
http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/8/htmldocs/regexp_08.html#1144043 Maybe I wrongly assumed that he was talking purely about the CF regEx engine? On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 5:10 PM, Peter Boughton wrote: > >As an aside, [0-9A-Za-z] can be shortened to [\w]. > > Not quite - \w also includes underscore, plus other characters too - varies > with character set. > > Here's an image demonstrating what \w matches: > http://www.regular-expressions.info/screens/rxbcharclass.png > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:313495 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
