On Saturday 24 May 2008, Robin Atwood wrote: > On Saturday 24 May 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Saturday 24 May 2008, Robin Atwood wrote: > > > But why does "[[:space:]]+" work and "\s+" fail? > > > > Apparently because \s is not a synonym for [[:space:]] > > Here for a start: > http://www.regular-expressions.info/charclass.html#shorthand > > and also > http://doc.trolltech.com/3.3/qregexp.html#characters-and-abbreviation >s-for-sets-of-characters > > Is it a Perl thing? Probably! > http://www.troubleshooters.com/codecorn/littperl/perlreg.htm#DoingStr >ingComparisons
Ah yes, it's the old: grep/sed/awk/vi/perl-implement-regexes-identically-except-when-they-don't thing again! -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
