These aren't the characters you're looking for...

[Robin Barker]

From: Andy Wardley
> I mistakenly wrote this the other day:
>
>     [\s^\n]
>
> What I wanted was to match a whitespace character that wasn't a newline.
>
> Of course, I could just write this:
>
>     [ \t]
>
> But that doesn't include the Unicode whitespace characters which \s would
> normally match.  So I ended up writing this:
>
>     [ \t\x{85}\x{2028}\x{2029}]
>
> Second: am I missing something obvious?  Is there a better way to do it?

You could use 
	[[:blank:]] 
(see perlre), but my experience is that [:...:] does not behave as I expect with unicode (maybe my expectations are wrong).

You could also do a negative look ahead 
	(?!\n)\s

Robin

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