NAME

Regexp::VerbalExpressions - Perl Regular expressions made easy

SYNOPSIS

            

              
              
use Regexp::VerbalExpressions;
# Create an example of how to test for correctly formed URLs
my $re = verex
       ->start_of_line
       ->then('http')
       ->maybe('s')
       ->then('://')
       ->maybe('www.')
       ->anything_but(' ')
       ->end_of_line;
if ('https://www.google.com/' =~ $re) {
    print 'We have a correct URL'; # This output will fire
} else {
    print 'The URL is incorrect';
}
print $re; # Outputs the actual expression used: ^(?:http)(?:s)?(?:\:\/\/)(?:www\.)?(?:[^\ ]*)$
            
          

DESCRIPTION

Regexp::VerbalExpressions is a Perl module that helps to construct difficult regular expressions.

API

Modifiers

anything()

anything_but($value)

end_of_line()

find($value)

maybe($value)

start_of_line()

then($value)

Special characters and groups

any($value)

any_of($value)

br()

line_break()

range($from, $to)

tab()

word()

Modifiers

with_any_case()

stop_at_first()

search_one_line()

Functions

replace($source, $value)

Other

add($expression)

multiple($value)

or()

SEE ALSO

https://github.com/VerbalExpressions/JSVerbalExpressions

LICENSE

Copyright (C) Takumi Akiyama.

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

AUTHOR

Takumi Akiyama <t.akiym@gmail.com>