Perl::Critic::Policy::RegularExpressions::ProhibitEnumerUserCContributed PPerl::Critic::Policy::RegularExpressions::ProhibitEnumeratedClasses(3pm)

NAME

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

AFFILIATION

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

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:

       "[	
f ]" vs. "s"

       "[	
 ]" 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"

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.

AUTHOR

       Chris Dolan <cdolan@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (c) 2007-2011 Chris Dolan.  Many rights reserved.

       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.  The full text of this license
       can be found in the LICENSE file included with this module

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