RHOADSM1@WESTAT.COM sagely spoke: >Did you know that: > >You need to be a little careful when using the \w ("word") character >class in regular expressions. > >I just ran across an example in the SAS documentation using PRXPOSN to >reverse first and last names. The regular expression uses \w to >represent each name like so: /(\w+), (\w+)/ > >However, "word" characters are defined as alphanumeric plus the >underscore. Notably, they do not include hyphens or apostrophes. > >Thus, while the example works fine on the test data they supplied, it >does not work correctly with names such as O'Reilly or Sekula-Gibbs. > >Mike Rhoads >Westat >RhoadsM1@Westat.com

This is one of the things I stress in my PRX function seminars. The 'word' character is a logical 'word' for, say, a SAS or Perl programmer, not for a speaker of English.

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