NAME

Text::Query::SolveAdvancedString - Apply query expression on strings

SYNOPSIS

use Text::Query;
my $q=new Text::Query('hello and world',
                      -parse => 'Text::Query::ParseAdvanced',
                      -solve => 'Text::Query::SolveAdvancedString',
                      -build => 'Text::Query::BuildAdvancedString');

$q->match('this hello is a world')

DESCRIPTION

Applies an expression built by Text::Query::BuildAdvancedString to a list of strings.

METHODS

match ([TARGET])

If TARGET is a scalar, match returns a true value if the string specified by TARGET matches the query object's query expression. If TARGET is not given, the match is made against $_.

If TARGET is an array, match returns a (possibly empty) list of all matching elements. If the elements of the array are references to sub- arrays, the match is done against the first element of each sub-array. This allows arbitrary information (e.g. filenames) to be associated with each string to match.

If TARGET is a reference to an array, match returns a reference to a (possibly empty) list of all matching elements.

matchscalar ([TARGET])

Behaves just like MATCH when TARGET is a scalar or is not given. Slightly faster than MATCH under these circumstances.

AUTHORS

Eric Bohlman (ebohlman@netcom.com)

Loic Dachary (loic@senga.org)