Minor request: \v for vertical spacing · Issue #477 · mrabarnett/mrab-regex (original) (raw)

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Hi!

I'm using the regex lib to make a port of language tool libs (originally java) for sentence and word tokenization.
Those are relying on \v\h heavily. Some of those rules are shipped in the xml files full of regexes and I'm willing not to alter those to not to maintain a separate copy. I can kind of workaround it by replacing \v with VERTICAL_SPACE: str = "\u000a\u000b\u000c\u000d\u0085\u2028\u2029" but it's another tiny nightmare, as those regexes can come in different fashions: \v*, [\v\t]*, etc.

Please review the possibility to add the \v flag