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Perl::Critic::Policy::RegularExpressions::ProhibitEnumeratedClasses - Use named character classes instead

Affiliation

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

Author

       Chris Dolan <cdolan@cpan.org>

Configuration

       This Policy is not configurable except for the standard options.

Credits

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

Description

       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"

Name

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

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