Unicode Regex Question

Steven R. Loomis srl at icu-project.org
Wed Dec 31 12:49:05 CST 2014


http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr35/tr35-general.html#Transform_Rules_Syntax says they are similar. I couldn't find anywhere that says they ARE regexes. Stronger warnings would be fine. ICU's docs should be removed and just point to cldr. 

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> El dic 31, 2014, a las 10:28 AM, Mark Davis ☕️ <mark at macchiato.com> escribió:
> 
> {phone}
> On Dec 31, 2014 3:31 PM, "Nick Patch" <patch at cpan.org> wrote:
> >
> > On 31 December 2014 at 05:51, Mark Davis ☕️ <mark at macchiato.com> wrote:
> >
> > > The $ in CLDR transforms is NOT the same as $ in regex. 
> >
> > Considering that transform syntax shares some common elements with regex syntax, it might be good to document that regular expressions are not supported in transforms. They both share Unicode sets (character classes), but the similarities stop there.
> 
> Good idea. It is more than just the sets, but is a very limited subset of regex operations, plus some special features.
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