Regex: Matching characters, but not digits

[Greg Chapman]

On Tue, 05 Nov 2002 13:06:23 +0100, Thomas Guettler
<zopestoller at thomas-guettler.de> wrote:

>Hi!
>
>\w matches characters and digits. But,
>how can I match only characters?
>
>This should work for unicode, too
>
>  thomas

This should work: [^\W\d_].  That is, match something which is 1) not not a \w,
2) not a digit and 3) not an underscore.

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Greg Chapman