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🔤 Regexp::Expression::CharacterType::Word < Regexp::Expression::CharacterType::Base

📛 NAME

Regexp::Expression::CharacterType::Word — A character type expression that matches word characters (\w) in regular expressions.

🚀 Quick Reference

Use Case	Command	Description
🔍 Match word characters	`\w`	Matches any word character (letter, digit, underscore).
🔍 Match non-word characters	`\W`	Matches any character that is not a word character.
🧪 Check if a token is a word type	`token.is_a?(Regexp::Expression::CharacterType::Word)`	Returns true if the token represents a `\w` or `\W` type.
⚙️ Access token type	`token.type`	Returns `:word` for word character types.

📖 Description

This class represents a character type token in a regular expression that matches word characters. It is part of the Regexp::Expression AST hierarchy, inheriting from Regexp::Expression::CharacterType::Base. Instances correspond to \w (positive) or \W (negative) in the applied quantifier context.

⚙️ Options

No specific options are defined for this class. All options are inherited from parent classes.

📦 Also found in

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🔗 See Also

Regexp::Expression::CharacterType::Base — parent class
Regexp::Expression — base expression class
\w and \W in Ruby regular expressions

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