Word character class - \w
Q
What is abbreviation of a character class of all word characters? Does it represents any alphanumeric plus '_' characters?
How to write a regular expression using a character class abbreviation to capture all words in a PHP script code like this: function get($key) {if (array_key_exists($key,$_POST)) return $_POST[$key]; else return "";}?
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A
The predefined abbreviation of a character class of all word characters is \w, which is the same as [0-9a-zA-Z_]. \w represents any alphanumeric plus '_' characters.
The regular expression to capture all words is:
(\w+)
\w+ - matches 1 or more word characters
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