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Perl::Critic::Policy::RegularExpressions::ProhibitEnumeratedClasses(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation Perl::Critic::Policy::RegularExpressions::ProhibitEnumeratedClasses(3)

Perl::Critic::Policy::RegularExpressions::ProhibitEnumeratedClasses - Use named character classes instead of explicit character lists.

This Policy is part of the core Perl::Critic distribution.

This policy is not for everyone! If you are working in pure ASCII, then disable it now or you may see some false violations.

On the other hand many of us are working in a multilingual world with an extended character set, probably Unicode. In that world, patterns like "m/[A-Z]/" can be a source of bugs when you really meant "m/\p{IsUpper}/". This policy catches a selection of possible incorrect character class usage.

Specifically, the patterns are:

"[\t\r\n\f\ ]" vs. "\s"

"[\t\r\n\ ]" vs. "\s" (because many people forget "\f")

"[A-Za-z0-9_]" vs. "\w"

"[A-Za-z]" vs. "\p{IsAlphabetic}"

"[A-Z]" vs. "\p{IsUpper}"

"[a-z]" vs. "\p{IsLower}"

"[0-9]" vs. "\d"

"[^\w]" vs. "\W"

"[^\s]" vs. "\S"

This Policy is not configurable except for the standard options.

Initial development of this policy was supported by a grant from the Perl Foundation.

Chris Dolan <cdolan@cpan.org>

Copyright (c) 2007-2011 Chris Dolan. Many rights reserved.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. The full text of this license can be found in the LICENSE file included with this module

2022-04-08 perl v5.32.1

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