matching cyrilic characters with kotlins Regex.kt

Question

I am not able to match cyrillic strings in kotlin doing the following:

val regex = Regex(":\p{Cyrillic}*:")
regex.find(any)

IDE shows word Cyrillic red and compiler says:

Unknown character property name {Cyrillic} near index 27

How to do this properly with kotlin?

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65641049/matching-cyrilic-characters-with-kotlins-regex-kt

Answer 1

You should use the In prefix, p{InCyrillic}:

val regex = Regex(":\p{InCyrillic}*:")
println(regex.findAll(":Привет:...:Пока:").map{it.value}.joinToString() )
// => :Привет:, :Пока:

See the Kotlin demo