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Dear experts,

I'm looking for a regular expression to recognize natural language
words with umlauts but without numbers. While \w with re.U does
recognize words with umlauts, it also matches numbers, which I do
not want.

Is there a better way than an exhaustive enumeration such as
[-a-zÃ*áâãäåæ...]?

I guess there should be a better way as \w appears to know about
alphabetical characters...

Thanks in advance
Jens

On 2011-05-13, Peter Otten wrote:

> Jens Lechtenboerger wrote:
>
>> I'm looking for a regular expression to recognize natural language
>> words with umlauts but without numbers. While \w with re.U does
>> recognize words with umlauts, it also matches numbers, which I do
>> not want.
>>
>> Is there a better way than an exhaustive enumeration such as
>> [-a-zÃ*áâãäåæ...]?
>>
>> I guess there should be a better way as \w appears to know about
>> alphabetical characters...
>
> How about [^\W\d] ?

Brilliant.

Thanks
Jens