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oweiler on July 29, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Sculpting text with regex, grep, sed, awk, emacs a...

And depending on the context makes them wrong. \d is not equivalent to [0-9].

shmerl on July 29, 2014 [–]

Not only if it uses different locales. Normally it is equal to [0-9]. Don't even start on Unicode and regexes.

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