regexp [:punct:] character class

[Jonathan Rochkind]

So every piece of documentation on ruby regexps I can find, including
the pickaxe book, lists that the [unct:] POSIX character class is
valid.

But it doesn't actually work. It just gets treated as a standard
character class including the chars :,p,u,n,c,t.

Is there something I'm missing? Is there some way to actually use
[unct:] in a ruby regexp to mean the POSIX character class as
documented?

Thanks for any help!

Jonathan

 

[Jonathan Rochkind]

As always, I figured it out right after I posted it. The POSIX character
class tokens need to go inside character class brackets, resulting in
double brackets:

/[[unct:]]/