IMPORTANT NOTICE: As of version 2016060101, we cease to support pre-5.10.0 perls. 5.10.0 was release over 8 years ago, and it just becomes too painful to support older perls.
The main reason for version 2.122 is a change in the license. You now have the option to use this software under either the original Artistic License, the Artistic License 2.0, the MIT license, or the BSD license.
WARNINGS: As of version 2016052801, $RE {delimited} and $RE {quoted} are no longer supported on pre-5.10 Perl.s
As of version 2013030901, $RE {balanced} is no longer supported
for pre-5.10 Perls.
INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE in version 2.119:
The $N settings for the -keep option of US postal codes
($RE {zip} {US} {-keep}) have been changed. See the
Regexp::Common::zip for details.
INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE in version 2.113:
Regexp::Common used to set $; to '='. This no longer happens,
because setting $; breaks Filter::Simple. This means that regexps
of the form $RE{foo}{"-flag=value"} no longer work! They need
to be written as $RE{foo}{"-flag$;value"} or as
$RE{foo}{-flag => "value"}.
When defining patterns using the pattern function, a = still
needs to be used to separate the flag from its default value.
This has not been changed.
We are very sorry for the inconvenience.NAME
Regexp::Common - Provide commonly requested regular expressionsSYNOPSIS
use Regexp::Common;
while (<>) {
/$RE{num}{real}/
and print q{a number\n};
/$RE{quoted}/
and print q{a ['"`] quoted string\n};
/$RE{delimited}{-delim=>'/'}/
and print q{a /.../ sequence\n};
/$RE{balanced}{-parens=>'()'}/
and print q{balanced parentheses\n};
/$RE{profanity}/
and print q{a #*@%-ing word\n};
}DESCRIPTION
By default, this module exports a single hash (`%RE') that stores or
generates commonly needed regular expressions. Patterns currently
provided include:
* balanced parentheses and brackets
* delimited text (with escapes)
* integers and floating-point numbers in any base (up to 36)
* comments in 44 languages
* offensive language
* lists of any pattern
* IPv4 addresses
* URIs.
* Zip codes.
Future releases of the module will also provide patterns for the
following:
* email addresses
* HTML/XML tags
* mail headers (including multiline ones),
* more URIs
* telephone numbers of various countries
* currency (universal 3 letter format, Latin-1, currency names)
* dates
* binary formats (e.g. UUencoded, MIMEd)
* Credit card numbers.INSTALLATION
It's all pure Perl, so just put the .pm files in their appropriate
local Perl subdirectory.
Alternatively, use the common approach:
- untar the archive
- run: perl Makefile.PL
- run: make
- run: make test
- run: make installAUTHORS
Damian Conway (damian@cs.monash.edu.au) and Abigail
(regexp-common@abigail.freedom.nl)MAINTAINER
Abigail (regexp-common@abigail.freedom.nl)COPYRIGHT and LICENSE
This software is Copyright (c) 2001 - 2024, Damian Conway and Abigail.
This module is free software, and maybe used under any of the following
licenses:
1) The Perl Artistic License. See the file COPYRIGHT.AL.
2) The Perl Artistic License 2.0. See the file COPYRIGHT.AL2.
3) The BSD License. See the file COPYRIGHT.BSD.
4) The MIT License. See the file COPYRIGHT.MIT.==============================================================================
AVAILABILITY
Regexp::Common has been uploaded to the CPAN and is also available from:
http://github.com/Abigail/Regexp--Common.git==============================================================================