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Regular expression \p{L} and \p{N}

I am new to regular expressions and have been given the following regular expression:

(\p{L}|\p{N}|_|-|\.)*

I know what * means and | means "or" and that \ escapes.

But what I don't know what \p{L} and \p{N} means. I have searched Google for it, without result...

Can someone help me?

Solution

  • \p{L} matches a single code point in the category "letter".
    \p{N} matches any kind of numeric character in any script.

    Source: regular-expressions.info

    If you're going to work with regular expressions a lot, I'd suggest bookmarking that site, it's very useful.