On Monday 2008 November 24 10:54, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: > Andre Majorel wrote: > > I seem to remember that the non-standard [:ascii:] character class > > was once supported. Now grep and sed give the error "Invalid > > character class name". Am I misremembering ? More importantly, is > > there a way to get it back ? > > > > Thanks in advance. > > "[[:ascii:]]" ?
Nope. It's gone, and it probably won't be coming back.
from regex(7):
Standard character class names are:
alnum digit punct
alpha graph space
blank lower upper
cntrl print xdigit
You might be able to do something like '[\000-\377]' but I'm not sure exactly
how all the escaping rules work for that off the top of my head.
--
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_))
ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-'
http://iguanasuicide.org/ \_/
pgpKXenGh5WcI.pgp
Description: PGP signature
