This is where I tested at. http://www.phpliveregex.com Could it be their parser doing this or is this correct protocol? Just seems odd to me. Best, Karl DeSaulniers Design Drumm http://designdrumm.com On Oct 23, 2015, at 8:04 PM, Karl DeSaulniers <karl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Correct. > > So with my case in needing to grab just words, > > [\D] will grab all words, dashes, hyphens etc. > Same with [\S]. > > In essence grabbing all words if there is nothing else to grab except a number. > However, the shorthand \w does not and would seem (to me) that it should by definition only capture words and not the number 1. > Franks explanation makes some sense to me, but how come it didn't grab the number 0 then? > If you notice, the 10 got split up. > > Best, > > Karl DeSaulniers > Design Drumm > http://designdrumm.com > > > > On Oct 23, 2015, at 7:54 PM, German Geek <geek.de@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> In regular expressions a backslash capital letter means the opposite. So, \D is NON-digits, \W is NON-word characters and \S is NON-whitespace. You can also do [A-z]* to get all letters in the English language plus the characters between them like ^ and literal \. >> >> I believe you can also do Unicode ranges with the respective \usomehex, but I haven't tried that yet. >> >> Tim >> >> On Sat, 24 Oct 2015 at 12:38 Karl DeSaulniers <karl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Oct 23, 2015, at 7:54 AM, Frank Arensmeier <farensmeier@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> > >> >> 23 okt 2015 kl. 14:44 skrev Karl DeSaulniers <karl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: >> >> >> >> Hello all, >> >> With the given string.. >> >> >> >> vehicle10-vehicle-name >> >> >> >> Running regex in a preg_match like >> >> >> >> "/(\w+)([0-9+]+)-(.*)/" >> >> >> >> I am getting. >> >> >> >> array( >> >> 0 => vehicle10-vehicle-name >> >> 1 => vehicle1 >> >> 2 => 0 >> >> 3 => vehicle-name >> >> ) >> >> >> >> If I change it to. >> >> >> >> "/(\D+)([0-9+]+)-(.*)/" >> >> >> >> it works as expected. >> >> >> >> array( >> >> 0 => vehicle10-vehicle-name >> >> 1 => vehicle >> >> 2 => 10 >> >> 3 => vehicle-name >> >> ) >> >> >> >> Why is the \w directive including a digit? >> >> Since when is the number 1 a word?? >> >> >> >> If anyone could enlighten me, I would greatly appreciate it. >> >> >> >> TIA >> >> >> >> Best, >> >> >> >> Karl DeSaulniers >> >> Design Drumm >> >> http://designdrumm.com >> >> >> > >> > Hi Karl! >> > >> > I am not able to pinpoint the exact definition in the official PCRE documentation right now (http://www.pcre.org). But the short hand \w does in deed include numbers. As you can read here for example (https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/essential/regex/pre_char_classes.html), >> > >> > \w A word character: [a-zA-Z_0-9] >> > >> > Although its already Friday, your pattern is working as expected. >> > >> > /frank >> > >> >> OH, ok, so the \w basically is the shorthand of [a-zA-Z_0-9]? >> That would make sense, however I think it is misleading as there are \D and \S which denote grabbing word and or digits respectfully. >> I thought that \w meant one 'word' character (not digit or special characters or space or new line, just a word), >> or at least that is what I have read in my searches, hence the question here. >> >> Thank for your response! >> >> Best, >> >> Karl DeSaulniers >> Design Drumm >> http://designdrumm.com >> -- >> PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) >> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >> >
