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How to correctly match all whitespaces in PHP
<?php
declare(strict_types=1);
use PHPUnit\Framework\TestCase;
class WhitespaceMatchTest extends TestCase {
const SLASH_S = "#\s#";
const SLASH_S_U = "#\s#u";
const P_Z_U = "#\pZ#u";
const P_C_U = "#\pC#u";
const PZ_PC_U = "#[\pZ\pC]#u";
/**
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitespace_character
*
* @var array
*/
public static $whitespaces = array(
"character tabulation" => "\u{0009}",
"line feed" => "\u{000A}",
"line tabulation" => "\u{000B}",
"form feed" => "\u{000C}",
"carriage return" => "\u{000D}",
"space" => "\u{0020}",
"next line" => "\u{0085}",
"no-break space" => "\u{00A0}",
"ogham space mark" => "\u{1680}",
"en quad" => "\u{2000}",
"em quad" => "\u{2001}",
"en space" => "\u{2002}",
"em space" => "\u{2003}",
"three-per-em space" => "\u{2004}",
"four-per-em space" => "\u{2005}",
"six-per-em space" => "\u{2006}",
"figure space" => "\u{2007}",
"punctuation space" => "\u{2008}",
"thin space" => "\u{2009}",
"hair space" => "\u{200A}",
"line separator" => "\u{2028}",
"paragraph separator" => "\u{2029}",
"narrow no-break space" => "\u{202F}",
"medium mathematical space" => "\u{205F}",
"ideographic space" => "\u{3000}",
"mongolian vowel separator" => "\u{180E}",
"zero width space" => "\u{200B}",
"zero width non-joiner" => "\u{200C}",
"zero width joiner" => "\u{200D}",
"word joiner" => "\u{2060}",
"zero width non-breaking space" => "\u{FEFF}",
);
public function test_slash_S() {
self::assertSame(array(
'character tabulation' => true,
'line feed' => true,
'line tabulation' => true,
'form feed' => true,
'carriage return' => true,
'space' => true,
), $this->matchPattern(self::SLASH_S));
}
public function test_slash_S_with_U_flag() {
self::assertSame(array(
'character tabulation' => true,
'line feed' => true,
'line tabulation' => true,
'form feed' => true,
'carriage return' => true,
'space' => true,
'next line' => true,
'no-break space' => true,
'ogham space mark' => true,
'en quad' => true,
'em quad' => true,
'en space' => true,
'em space' => true,
'three-per-em space' => true,
'four-per-em space' => true,
'six-per-em space' => true,
'figure space' => true,
'punctuation space' => true,
'thin space' => true,
'hair space' => true,
'line separator' => true,
'paragraph separator' => true,
'narrow no-break space' => true,
'medium mathematical space' => true,
'ideographic space' => true,
'mongolian vowel separator' => true,
), $this->matchPattern(self::SLASH_S_U));
}
public function test_Z_class() {
self::assertSame(array(
'space' => true,
'no-break space' => true,
'ogham space mark' => true,
'en quad' => true,
'em quad' => true,
'en space' => true,
'em space' => true,
'three-per-em space' => true,
'four-per-em space' => true,
'six-per-em space' => true,
'figure space' => true,
'punctuation space' => true,
'thin space' => true,
'hair space' => true,
'line separator' => true,
'paragraph separator' => true,
'narrow no-break space' => true,
'medium mathematical space' => true,
'ideographic space' => true,
), $this->matchPattern(self::P_Z_U));
}
public function test_C_class() {
self::assertSame(array(
'character tabulation' => true,
'line feed' => true,
'line tabulation' => true,
'form feed' => true,
'carriage return' => true,
'next line' => true,
'mongolian vowel separator' => true,
'zero width space' => true,
'zero width non-joiner' => true,
'zero width joiner' => true,
'word joiner' => true,
'zero width non-breaking space' => true,
), $this->matchPattern(self::P_C_U));
}
public function test_Z_and_C_class() {
self::assertSame(array(
'character tabulation' => true,
'line feed' => true,
'line tabulation' => true,
'form feed' => true,
'carriage return' => true,
'space' => true,
'next line' => true,
'no-break space' => true,
'ogham space mark' => true,
'en quad' => true,
'em quad' => true,
'en space' => true,
'em space' => true,
'three-per-em space' => true,
'four-per-em space' => true,
'six-per-em space' => true,
'figure space' => true,
'punctuation space' => true,
'thin space' => true,
'hair space' => true,
'line separator' => true,
'paragraph separator' => true,
'narrow no-break space' => true,
'medium mathematical space' => true,
'ideographic space' => true,
'mongolian vowel separator' => true,
'zero width space' => true,
'zero width non-joiner' => true,
'zero width joiner' => true,
'word joiner' => true,
'zero width non-breaking space' => true,
), $this->matchPattern(self::PZ_PC_U));
}
public function test_Z_and_C_match_all() {
$expected = array_map(function () {
return true;
}, self::$whitespaces);
self::assertSame($expected, $this->matchPattern(self::PZ_PC_U));
}
public function test_S_and_S_U_are_different() {
$slash_s = $this->matchPattern(self::SLASH_S);
$slash_s_u = $this->matchPattern(self::SLASH_S_U);
self::assertTrue(count($slash_s_u) > count($slash_s));
self::assertSame(array(
'next line' => true,
'no-break space' => true,
'ogham space mark' => true,
'en quad' => true,
'em quad' => true,
'en space' => true,
'em space' => true,
'three-per-em space' => true,
'four-per-em space' => true,
'six-per-em space' => true,
'figure space' => true,
'punctuation space' => true,
'thin space' => true,
'hair space' => true,
'line separator' => true,
'paragraph separator' => true,
'narrow no-break space' => true,
'medium mathematical space' => true,
'ideographic space' => true,
'mongolian vowel separator' => true,
), array_diff_key($slash_s_u, $slash_s));
}
public function test_S_U_and_Z_are_different() {
$slash_s_u = $this->matchPattern(self::SLASH_S_U);
$p_z_u = $this->matchPattern(self::P_Z_U);
self::assertTrue(count($slash_s_u) > count($p_z_u));
self::assertSame(array(
'character tabulation' => true,
'line feed' => true,
'line tabulation' => true,
'form feed' => true,
'carriage return' => true,
'next line' => true,
'mongolian vowel separator' => true,
), array_diff_key($slash_s_u, $p_z_u));
}
/**
* @param $pattern
* @return array
*/
private function matchPattern($pattern): array {
$actual = [];
foreach (self::$whitespaces as $name => $whitespace) {
$actual[$name] = 1 === preg_match($pattern, $whitespace);
}
$actual = array_filter($actual);
return $actual;
}
}
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chrif commented Jan 29, 2018

"#[\pZ\pC]#u" is the only pattern that matches all the whitespaces listed in the Wikipedia page.

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