[erlang-questions] unexpected matching in re 12B5

[Michael McDaniel]

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 08:11:43PM +0100, Attila Babo wrote:
> 1> re:run("a b", "\\w\s\\w").
> {match,[{0,3}]}
> 
> While fixing a typo in my code I've found that \s with a single
> backslash is matching with a space in re:run but not the other general
> characters. Is this is bug or feature of re? :-)
> 
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 From the re module docs at http://erlang.org/doc/man/re.html

"
Generic character types

  ...

\s
    any whitespace character 

  ...
"


~M


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