Perl 6 Deep Dive

Backslashed character classes

There is a set of predefined character classes that start with a backslash and have one letter, either lowercase or uppercase. Uppercase versions are opposite to their lowercase and negate the set of the characters, with which a character class matches. The following table contains an overview of the backslashed character classes:

Character class	Negated class	Description
\s	\S	Whitespace
\t	\T	Tabulation
\h	\H	Horizontal space
\v	\V	Vertical space
\n	\N	New line
\d	\D	Digit
\w	\W	Word character

 

Now we will examine all the character classes in detail.