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POSIX character classes and Java character classes

   

Character Class Meta-Character               Matches

\p{Lower}                                    Lowercase letter [a-z]

\p{Upper}                                    Uppercase letter [A-Z]

\p{ASCII}                                    All ASCII [\x00-\x7F]

\p{Alpha}                                    Any lowercase or uppercase letter

\p{Digit}                                    A digit [0-9]

\p{Alnum}                                    Any letter or digit

\p{Punct}                                    Punctuation [!"#$%&'()*+,-./:;<=>?@[\]^_`{|}~]

\p{Graph}                                    A visible character: any letter, digit, or punctuation

\p{Print}                                    A printable character; same as \p{Graph}

\p{Blank}                                    A space or tab [ \t]

\p{Cntrl}                                    A control character [\x00-\x1F\x7F]

\p{XDigit}                                   Hexadecimal digit  [0-9a-fA-F]

\p{Space}                                    A whitespace character [ \t\n\x0B\f\r] 

   
    
  








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