From: "naruse (Yui NARUSE)" <naruse@...>
Date: 2012-12-17T11:49:58+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:50932] [ruby-trunk - Bug #7566] Escape (\u{}) forms in Regexp literals


Issue #7566 has been updated by naruse (Yui NARUSE).


brixen (Brian Ford) wrote:
> Are you saying you can represent \b as a \u{} escape sequence in a Regexp?

No.
(1) \b (word boundary), \s (spaces and tabs) and so on are can't expressed as bytes
(2) so escapes are not converted to bytes, kept as is
(3) \u{} is also escape, so kept as is
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Bug #7566: Escape (\u{}) forms in Regexp literals
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/7566#change-34787

Author: brixen (Brian Ford)
Status: Rejected
Priority: Normal
Assignee: 
Category: core
Target version: 2.0.0
ruby -v: ruby 1.9.3p327 (2012-11-10 revision 37606) [x86_64-darwin10.8.0]


Why are \u{} escape sequences in Regexp literals not converted to bytes like they are in String literals?

https://gist.github.com/4290155

Thanks,
Brian


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