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Character Classes

Derek Callaway edited this page Apr 19, 2018 · 11 revisions

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Character Classes

The character classes feature of strglob implements an ordered set of bytes. Specifying a character class is done by surrounding string with colons and square brackets. Refer to the sample below for a demonstration of the [:digit:] character class which encapsulates the characters 0 through 9. A list of all available character classes follows:

[:alnum:]

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
0
a
b
c
d
e
f
g
h
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k
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m
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A
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F
G
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I
J
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M
N
O
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T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z

[:alpha:]

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  • [:ascii:]
  • [:blank:]
  • [:cntrl:]
  • [:digit:]
  • [:graph:]
  • [:punct:]
  • [:lower:]
  • [:upper:]
  • [:print:]
  • [:space:]
  • [:symbol:]
  • [:xdigit:]
  • [:word:]

Example Input

[:digit:]


Example Output

0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9