I came across some regular expressions that contain [^\\p{L}]
. I understand that this is using some form of a Unicode category, but when I checked the documentation, I found only the following "L" categories:
Lu Uppercase letter UPPERCASE_LETTER
Ll Lowercase letter LOWERCASE_LETTER
Lt Titlecase letter TITLECASE_LETTER
Lm Modifier letter MODIFIER_LETTER
Lo Other letter OTHER_LETTER
What is L
in this context?
Answer
Taken from this link: http://www.regular-expressions.info/unicode.html
Check the Unicode Character Properties
section.
\p{L} matches a single code point in
the category "letter". If your input
string is à encoded as U+0061 U+0300,
it matches a without the accent. If
the input is à encoded as U+00E0, it
matches à with the accent. The reason
is that both the code points U+0061
(a) and U+00E0 (à) are in the category
"letter", while U+0300 is in the
category "mark".
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