perlrecharclass

perlrecharclass

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NAME

perlrecharclass - Perl Regular Expression Character Classes

DESCRIPTION

The top level documentation about Perl regular expressions is found in perlre.

This manual page discusses the syntax and use of character classes in Perl regular expressions.

A character class is a way of denoting a set of characters in such a way that one character of the set is matched. It's important to remember that: matching a character class consumes exactly one character in the source string. (The source string is the string the regular expression is matched against.)

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