Selecting all printable characters (regex)

[Joe Christl]

Hey all,

Is there an easier way to specify all printable characters instead of:

[-\]\\!@#$%^&*()_=+./?|[{};:'"~`\w\s]

Joe

 

[John W. Krahn]

Is there an easier way to specify all printable characters instead of:

[-\]\\!@#$%^&*()_=+./?|[{};:'"~`\w\s]

[[rint:]]


John

 

[Josef Moellers]

Hey all,

Is there an easier way to specify all printable characters instead of:

[-\]\\!@#$%^&*()_=+./?|[{};:'"~`\w\s]

I bet that someone will disagree that this class includes all printable
characters B-{)

Better use \p{IsPrint}

Josef

 

[Paul Lalli]

Hey all,

Is there an easier way to specify all printable characters instead of:

[-\]\\!@#$%^&*()_=+./?|[{};:'"~`\w\s]

Those are *all* printable characters?

How about , < > ?
How about á é í ó ú Á É Í Ó Ú ä ë ï ü ö Ä Ë Ï Ö Ü
å Å ?
How about ñ Ñ æ Æ µ ç Ç ¿ ¡ ?
How about © ß ð ¢ § « » ø Ø ?

You have an odd definition of "all"...

Paul Lalli

P.S. There are others I didn't bother typing, too...

P.P.S \w will match many of those characters I gave, *IF* use locale;
is in effect and the locale respects those characters as "word"
characters.

 

[Pradeep]

Hi,

The best thing is "." character in regex. It includes all the
characters except a newline character.

Regards,
Pradeep

Hey all,

Is there an easier way to specify all printable characters instead of:

[-\]\\!@#$%^&*()_=+./?|[{};:'"~`\w\s]

Those are *all* printable characters?

How about , < > ?
How about á é í ó ú Á É Í Ó Ú ä ë ï ü ö ÄË Ï Ö Ü
å Å ?
How about ñ Ñ æ Æ µ ç Ç ¿ ¡ ?
How about © ß ð ¢ § « » ø Ø ?

You have an odd definition of "all"...

Paul Lalli

P.S. There are others I didn't bother typing, too...

P.P.S \w will match many of those characters I gave, *IF* use locale;
is in effect and the locale respects those characters as "word"
characters.

 

[Joe Christl]

I thought the same thing, but hey... whatcha gonna do.

 

[Ralf Muschall]

Is there an easier way to specify all printable characters instead of:

[-\]\\!@#$%^&*()_=+./?|[{};:'"~`\w\s]

What about [[rint:]]?

Ralf

 

[Paul Lalli]

Hey all,

Is there an easier way to specify all printable characters instead of:

[-\]\\!@#$%^&*()_=+./?|[{};:'"~`\w\s]

The best thing is "." character in regex. It includes all the
characters except a newline character.

"Most inclusive" does not equate to "best". The OP asked for all
*printable* characters. As you said, . matches *all* characters
(including the newline if the /s modifier is used):

$_ = "\x00";
print "Any\n" if /./;
print "Printable\n" if /[[rint:]]/;
__END__
Any


Paul Lalli

 

[Tad McClellan]

I thought the same thing,

The same thing as _what_?

but hey... whatcha gonna do.

Quote some context in followups like everyone has been doing
for the previous 25 years.

 

[Tad McClellan]

[ top-posting (a sure sign of suspect content) repaired. ]

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

The best thing is "." character in regex. It includes all the
characters except a newline character.

Do you get paid for writing code to specification? (it appears not...)

 

[axel]

Hey all,

Is there an easier way to specify all printable characters instead of:

[-\]\\!@#$%^&*()_=+./?|[{};:'"~`\w\s]

[ -~]

Seems to cover the Ascii character set pretty well. You could always add
\t to it is you wish to consider that a printable character:

[ -~\t]

Likewise \w if you are using a specific locale and wosh to include
letters beyond the basic Ascii set.

Axel

 

[Jürgen Exner]

Do you get paid for writing code to specification? (it appears not...)

Well, this 'spec' is incomplete. In particular it doesn't state what should
happen to non-printable characters.
Therefore, strictly speaking, the '.' is the perfect solution. It does match
all printable characters as requested by the spec. It also happens to match
all other characters, but that's not a problem because the spec didn't state
anything about those.

Now, I have to admit that in real live there won't be many customers or
bosses, who would agree with this view.

SCNR

jue