[erlang-questions] Regexp Matching on Unicode

[Hugo Mills]

On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 12:32:43PM +0200, Zachary Kessin wrote:
> Hi All
> 
> I am hitting a bit of a wall here, I am building a lexer with leex and I
> really want to match on unicode chars, there is a regex class \p{Letter}
> but that does not seem to work in erlang. I really want is a way to say
> "Match a letter, but not a digit". So the \w would not work. Any ideas?

   I think if you want unicode support, you need to write your own
lexer, or use something other than leex. It's a bit limited in what it
supports. I went through this earlier this year, and ended up writing
my own -- partly for that reason, and partly to do with the way I
wanted to process block comments.

   Hugo.

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