[erlang-questions] Regexp Matching on Unicode

José Valim jose.valim@REDACTED
Tue Dec 13 11:40:04 CET 2016


Make sure to escape the property escape character and to also pass the
[unicode] flag when compiling and it should be good to go:

28> {ok, Reg} = re:compile("\\p{L}{5}", []).
{ok,{re_pattern,0,0,0,
                <<69,82,67,80,77,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,255,255,255,255,
                  255,255,...>>}}
29> re:run(<<"こんにちは"/utf8>>, Reg).
nomatch

30> {ok, RegUni} = re:compile("\\p{L}{5}", [unicode]).
{ok,{re_pattern,0,1,0,
                <<69,82,67,80,77,0,0,0,0,8,0,0,1,0,0,0,255,255,255,255,
                  255,255,...>>}}
31> re:run(<<"こんにちは"/utf8>>, RegUni).
{match,[{0,15}]}




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On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 11:32 AM, Zachary Kessin <zkessin@REDACTED> 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?
>
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