NAME

Regexp::Ethiopic - Regular Expressions Support for Ethiopic Script

SYNOPSIS

#
#  Overloading Perl REs:
#
use utf8;
use Regexp::Ethiopic 'overload';

:

s/([#2#])/fixForm($1,6)/eg;
s/([መረበወ]%2)/fixForm($1,6)/eg;
s/([መረበወ]%{1,3})/fixForm($1,6)/eg;
s/([መረበወ]%{1-3,7})/fixForm($1,6)/eg;

if ( /[#ኘ#]/ ) {
  #
  # do something
  #
  :
}

:
:

#
#  Without overloading:
#
use utf8;
require Regexp::Ethiopic;

my $string = "[መረበወ]%{1-3,7}";
my $re = Regexp::Ethiopic::getRe ( $re );

s/abc($re)xyz/"abc".fixForm($1,6)."xyz"/eg;

DESCRIPTION

The Regexp::Ethiopic module provides POSIX style character class definitions for working with the Ethiopic syllabary. The character classes provided by the Regexp::Ethiopic package correspond to inate properties of the script and are language independent.

The Regexp::Ethiopic package is NOT derived from the Regexp class and may not be instantiated into an object. See the files in the doc/ and examples/ directories that are included with this package.

REQUIRES

Works perfectly with Perl 5.8.0, may work with Perl 5.6.x but has not yet been tested.

BUGS

None known yet.

AUTHOR

Daniel Yacob, Yacob@EthiopiaOnline.Net