[Gambas-user] Isn't bracket regular expression compatible with UTF8?

[Fernando Cabral]

Tobi wrote:

> n your mail I can see three distinct attempts at writing down a
> negative character class: [^[:alpha:], [^[alpha]], and [^[:alpha]],
> but the correct syntax is
>
>   [[:^alpha:]]
>
> You want to check this first.


Right again, Tobi. I can't understand how I missed this. Thank you.

- fernando

2017-07-05 6:37 GMT-03:00 Tobias Boege <taboege at ...626...>:

> On Tue, 04 Jul 2017, Fernando Cabral wrote:
> > I have been trying something like *poder[^[:alpha:]*  so I  could find
> the
> > word "poder " ("poder" followed by an space) but not "poderão" ("ã" being
> > an alpha character in Portuguese.)
> >
> > In English it could be like finding "power" but not "powerless".
> >
> > Problem is that it seems [^[alpha]] includes accented characters like
> "á",
> > "é", "ã".
> >
> > That is, accented characters are not understood as alpha, but not alpha.
> >
> > Please, note that I have compiled it with the UTF8 flag:
> > *   re.Compile(poder[^[:alpha]], RegExp.utf8)*
> >
> > Any hints?
> >
>
> In your mail I can see three distinct attempts at writing down a
> negative character class: [^[:alpha:], [^[alpha]], and [^[:alpha]],
> but the correct syntax is
>
>   [[:^alpha:]]
>
> You want to check this first.
>
> Regards,
> Tobi
>
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