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Regular Expression Pocket Reference, 2nd Edition
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Regular Expression Pocket Reference, 2nd Edition

by Tony Stubblebine
July 2007
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
128 pages
2h 39m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Unicode Support

The Unicode character set gives unique numbers to the characters in all the world’s languages. Because of the large number of possible characters, Unicode requires more than one byte to represent a character. Some regular expression implementations will not understand Unicode characters because they expect 1 byte ASCII characters. Basic support for Unicode characters starts with the ability to match a literal string of Unicode characters. Advanced support includes character classes and other constructs that incorporate characters from all Unicode-supported languages. For example, \w might match è; as well as e.

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