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2 Release of version 1.95 of Text::Balanced
3==============================================================================
4
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6NAME
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8 Text::Balanced - Extract delimited text sequences from strings.
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10
11SUMMARY (see Balanced.pod for full details)
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13 Text::Balanced::extract_delimited
14
15 `extract_delimited' extracts the initial substring of a string
16 which is delimited by a user-specified set of single-character
17 delimiters, whilst ignoring any backslash-escaped delimiter
18 characters.
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20 Text::Balanced::extract_bracketed
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22 `extract_bracketed' extracts a balanced-bracket-delimited substring
23 (using any one (or more) of the user-specified delimiter brackets:
24 '(..)', '{..}', '[..]', or '<..>').
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26 Text::Balanced::extract_quotelike
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28 `extract_quotelike' attempts to recognize and extract any one of the
29 various Perl quote and quotelike operators (see "perlop(3)"). Embedded
30 backslashed delimiters, nested bracket delimiters (for the
31 quotelike operators), and trailing modifiers are all correctly handled.
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33 Text::Balanced::extract_codeblock
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35 `extract_codeblock' attempts to recognize and extract a
36 balanced bracket-delimited substring which may also contain
37 unbalanced brackets inside Perl quotes or quotelike
38 operations. That is, `extract_codeblock' is like a combination
39 of `extract_bracketed' and `extract_quotelike'.
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41 Text::Balanced::extract_tagged
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43 `extract_tagged' attempts to recognize and extract a
44 substring between two arbitrary "tag" patterns (a start tag
45 and an end tag).
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47
48INSTALLATION
49
50 It's all pure Perl, so just put the .pm file in its appropriate
51 local Perl subdirectory.
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53
54AUTHOR
55
56 Damian Conway ([email protected])
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58
59COPYRIGHT
60
61 Copyright (c) 1997-2001, Damian Conway. All Rights Reserved.
62 This module is free software. It may be used, redistributed
63 and/or modified under the same terms as Perl itself.
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65
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67==============================================================================
68
69CHANGES IN VERSION 1.95
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71
72 - Constrainted _match_quote to only match at word boundaries
73 (so "exemplum(hic)" doesn't match "m(hic)")
74 (thanks Craig)
75
76
77==============================================================================
78
79AVAILABILITY
80
81Text::Balanced has been uploaded to the CPAN
82
83==============================================================================
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