Regular expression in Ruby to capture Unicode punctuation marks?

Question

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

Answer 1

You can use this one:

/[[:punct:]]/

For more info check the Regexp class. You can also test it on this Rubular permalink

Answer 2

\p{P}

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