alphanumeric regular expression in R
问题 I am trying to use [:alnum:] as explained on ?regex Anyone knows why grepl("^([a-zA-Z0-9])+([;])", x="dj5sads;adsa") returns TRUE, but grepl("^([:alnum:])+([;])", x="dj5sads;adsa") returns FALSE? 回答1: [:alnum:] is only the name of the class. As you want to put this named class into a character class, you have to enclose it with just another pair of [] : [[:alnum:]] In your example it'd be grepl("^([[:alnum:]])+([;])", x="dj5sads;adsa") //Output: TRUE demo @ ideone 回答2: what you want is grepl(