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>