concatenation of character classes with oniguruma and joni regexes

August 21, 2009

i was pleasantly surprised by some regex goodness present in oniguruma [ ruby 1.9 ] and joni [ jruby ]

regexes can concatenate character classes, so you can do things like match against “all unicode whitespace except newlines” thus :

/[[^\n]&&[:space:]]+/

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