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Re:Why Using .* in Regular Expressions Is Almost Never What ... by UweSchmidt on Wednesday June 04, 2014 @10:33AM (#7845728)
\d finds arabic numerals? As in 0-9? Scandalous :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_numerals

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Re:Why Using .* in Regular Expressions Is Almost Never What ... by extra88 on Wednesday June 04, 2014 @11:56AM (#7846315)
Perhaps they mean Eastern Arabic numerals. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Arabic_numerals
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Re:Why Using .* in Regular Expressions Is Almost Never What ... by acdha on Wednesday June 04, 2014 @02:51PM (#7847388)
Indeed - those are in use by millions of people. I wonder if any regexp implementation has started matching all of the other number symbols in Unicode:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerals_in_Unicode

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Re:Why Using .* in Regular Expressions Is Almost Never What ... by greglindahl on Wednesday June 04, 2014 @03:52PM (#7847749)
Perl does, by default.

There's a modifier if you want to only match ASCII digits.

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