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3 > POSIX character classes for creating regular expressions.
7 Install with [npm](https://www.npmjs.com/):
10 $ npm install --save posix-character-classes
13 Install with [yarn](https://yarnpkg.com):
16 $ yarn add posix-character-classes
22 var posix = require('posix-character-classes');
23 console.log(posix.alpha);
27 ## POSIX Character classes
29 The POSIX standard supports the following classes or categories of charactersh (note that classes must be defined within brackets)<sup class="footnote-ref"><a href="#fn1" id="fnref1">[1]</a></sup>:
31 | **POSIX class** | **Equivalent to** | **Matches** |
33 | `[:alnum:]` | `[A-Za-z0-9]` | digits, uppercase and lowercase letters |
34 | `[:alpha:]` | `[A-Za-z]` | upper- and lowercase letters |
35 | `[:ascii:]` | `[\x00-\x7F]` | ASCII characters |
36 | `[:blank:]` | `[ \t]` | space and TAB characters only |
37 | `[:cntrl:]` | `[\x00-\x1F\x7F]` | Control characters |
38 | `[:digit:]` | `[0-9]` | digits |
39 | `[:graph:]` | `[^[:cntrl:]]` | graphic characters (all characters which have graphic representation) |
40 | `[:lower:]` | `[a-z]` | lowercase letters |
41 | `[:print:]` | `[[:graph] ]` | graphic characters and space |
42 | `[:punct:]` | ``[-!"#$%&'()*+,./:;<=>?@[]^_`{ | }~]`` | all punctuation characters (all graphic characters except letters and digits) |
43 | `[:space:]` | `[ \t\n\r\f\v]` | all blank (whitespace) characters, including spaces, tabs, new lines, carriage returns, form feeds, and vertical tabs |
44 | `[:upper:]` | `[A-Z]` | uppercase letters |
45 | `[:word:]` | `[A-Za-z0-9_]` | word characters |
46 | `[:xdigit:]` | `[0-9A-Fa-f]` | hexadecimal digits |
50 * `a[[:digit:]]b` matches `a0b`, `a1b`, ..., `a9b`.
51 * `a[:digit:]b` is invalid, character classes must be enclosed in brackets
52 * `[[:digit:]abc]` matches any digit, as well as `a`, `b`, and `c`.
53 * `[abc[:digit:]]` is the same as the previous, matching any digit, as well as `a`, `b`, and `c`
54 * `[^ABZ[:lower:]]` matches any character except lowercase letters, `A`, `B`, and `Z`.
60 Pull requests and stars are always welcome. For bugs and feature requests, [please create an issue](../../issues/new).
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77 $ npm install && npm test
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89 Copyright © 2017, [Jon Schlinkert](https://github.com/jonschlinkert).
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96 <hr class="footnotes-sep">
97 <section class="footnotes">
98 <ol class="footnotes-list">
99 <li id="fn1" class="footnote-item">table and examples are based on the WikiBooks page for [Regular Expressions/POSIX Basic Regular Expressions](https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Regular_Expressions/POSIX_Basic_Regular_Expressions), which is available under the [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/). <a href="#fnref1" class="footnote-backref">↩</a>