June 2008
Intermediate to advanced
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For convenience, we can use character groups to stand for
groups of characters. Specifying L is
simpler than specifying all letters, particularly if you have to allow
for the many thousands of characters defined in the Unicode standard.
The character groups are used with the \p and \P
operators; \p{L} means all letters,
while \P{L} means everything except
letters. The character groups and their names are defined in the Unicode Character Database, available
online here: http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/UCD.html.
The following lists are the character groups.
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