class pattern.punctuation
Pattern for matching punctuation characters
Contract
Parameter keyDefault valueType
a_typeopt
regex_string"[!&quot;#$%&amp;'()*+,-./:;<=>?@[\]^_`{|}~]"string
Water Contract
<class pattern.punctuation
  regex_string  ="[!&amp;quot;#$%&amp;amp;'()*+,-./:;<=>?@[\]^_`{|}~]"=string
  _native_object=<ja.org.apache.regexp.RE/>
/>

See also: is_type_for, get_string_segments, replace_string_segments, string_segment

Returns a pattern with a regex_string field set to " [!"#$%&'()*+,-./:;<=>?@[\]^_`{|}~] ".
Example: Match string of punctuation only
<pattern pattern.start_of_line 
         pattern.<one_or_more pattern.punctuation />
         pattern.end_of_line />.
<is_type_for "!@#$%" />
true
Example: Does not match alphabetic characters
<pattern pattern.start_of_line 
         pattern.<one_or_more pattern.punctuation />
         pattern.end_of_line />.
<is_type_for "!@#$not%" />
false

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