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                  Release of version 1.20 of Regexp::Common
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NOTE:  The jump from version 0.09 to 1.20 does not indicate a significant
       change in the API, or any other significant change. It's just that
       the version number now follows the revision number from CVS.

NAME

    Regexp::Common - Provide commonly requested regular expressions


SYNOPSIS

     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 39 languages
    	* offensive language
	* lists of any pattern
	* IPv4 addresses
        * URIs.

    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)


INSTALLATION

    It's all pure Perl, so just put the .pm files in their appropriate
    local Perl subdirectory.


AUTHOR

    Damian Conway (damian@cs.monash.edu.au)


MAINTAINER

    Abigail (regexp-common@abigail.nl)


COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (c) 1997-2002, Damian Conway. All Rights Reserved.
     This module is free software. It may be used, redistributed
     and/or modified under the terms of the Perl Artistic License
          (see http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html)



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CHANGES IN VERSION 1.20

Revision history for Perl extension Regexp::Common.

1.20  Tue Aug 27 19:06:13 CEST 2002
        - Balanced patterns can now take multiple sets of arbitrary
          strings as delimiters.
        - Fax URIs.
        - More comment patterns.

0.09  Tue Aug  6 16:44:57 CEST 2002
        - Fixed $RE{URI}{tel}, local phone numbers can have
          future extensions as well.

0.08  Tue Aug  6 15:50:31 CEST 2002
        - Added tel URI regexes.

0.07  Mon Aug  5 14:31:17 CEST 2002
        - Fixed 'Regex::' and 'Rexexp::' typos.
        - Split t/test_uris.t into t/test_ftp_uri.t, t/test_http_uri.t
          and t/test_uris.t.

0.06  Mon Aug  5 00:56:19 CEST 2002
        - URI regexes. Currently only HTTP and FTP. More to come.

0.05  Thu Aug  1 12:01:04 CEST 2002
        - Improved the 'subs' method of MAC addresses.

0.04  Thu Aug  1 01:18:37 CEST 2002
        - Added the set of $RE{net}{MAC} regexes, by request of
          Iain Truskett <spoon@cpan.org>.
        - Required minimum Perl version for regexes for Haskell and
          Dylan comment, as they can be recursive.
        - Petdance suggested regexes for LOGO comments.

0.03  Wed Jul 31 15:21:11 CEST 2002
        - Made the entire setup more modular, giving each set of patterns
          its own .pm file. Loading all goes via Regexp::Common though.
        - use strict; everywhere - it also runs under -W (localized).
        - Added comment regexes for many more languages (26 currently).
        - Fixed some small bugs.

0.02  Tue Jul 23 23:18:15 2002
        - Added $RE{comment}{HTML}

0.01  Thu May 18 14:45:14 2000
	- original version; created by h2xs 1.18


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AVAILABILITY

Regexp::Common has been uploaded to the CPAN
and is also available from:

	http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~damian/CPAN/Regexp-Common.tar.gz

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