> *\w means the same as [0-9A-Za-z_]* I've got news! There are some characters o... | Hacker News

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lelf on March 10, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Learn regular expressions in about 55 minutes

> \w means the same as [0-9A-Za-z_]

I've got news! There are some characters outside ASCII

datr on March 10, 2014 [–]

To be fair, this depends on the implementation. Java, JavaScript and PCRE will only match ascii characters.

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