Ruby regex for Unicode punctuation?

Question

Is there a regular expression in Ruby that identifies Unicode punctuation (e.g. ", -)?

Answer 1

\p{P} 

- not only in Ruby. See http://www.regular-expressions.info/unicode.html

Answer 2

You can use this:

 /[[:punct:]]/ 

Read the Regexp class for more details . You can also check it out on Rubular permalink