[Mono-dev] Regex and Unicode

[Vladimir Giszpenc]

Hello list members,

 

Since .Net regular expressions don't do POSIX, I replace POSIX character
classes by Unicode ones.  See
http://www.regular-expressions.info/posixbrackets.html for the translation
table I used.

 

I ran into a problem with

POSIX       Description             ASCII       Unicode

[:alpha:]  Alphabetic characters  [a-zA-Z]    \p{L&}

 

The problem occurs in .Net too so you might choose not to fix it and I would
understand.  I hope however, you can fix it (and get MS to do the same).

 

The \p{L&} regular expression throws an exception because the ampersand is
neither a character nor a close brace.  

 

System.ArgumentException: parsing "\p{L&}" - Incomplete \p{X} character
escape.

Parameter name: \p{L&}

  at System.Text.RegularExpressions.Syntax.Parser.ParseUnicodeCategory ()
[0x000a8] in
/tmp/monobuild/build/BUILD/mono-1.9.1/mcs/class/System/System.Text.RegularEx
pressions/parser.cs:796 

>>> Rest of exception clipped <<<

 

 

using System;

using System.Text.RegularExpressions;

 

namespace test

{

      class MainClass

      {

            public static void Main(string[] args)

            {

                  Regex r = new Regex(@"\p{L&}"); //running this code will
throw an exception

            }

      }

}

 

Since this might be by design, I am not using bugzilla.  I hope someone can
tell me how this is supposed to work first.  Also, I am not looking for a
workaround, as I have one.  This is more of an FYI.

 

Thanks,

 

Vlad

 

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