All the Perl that's Practical to Extract and Report

15th Dec 2003

advent on 2003-12-15T00:27:25

Comments for Perl Advent Calendar Entry 15th Dec 2003. Comments posted below may be displayed on perladvent.org.

Build Regexps Through Method Calls

chromatic on 2003-12-15T02:07:29

Regexp::English does this. It's pretty painful for the short stuff, though I like bound variables quite a bit.

star

bart on 2003-12-15T10:19:15

'*' means match zero or more times
No, that's regexes. Surely you mean "zero or more characters"?

Re:star

2shortplanks on 2003-12-16T10:37:03

Indeed, I did. Corrected, thanks for pointing it out.

Septate?

eric.t.f.bat on 2003-12-16T01:06:17

Incidentally, is septate a technical term, or a typo for separate?

(I don't MEAN to find all these typos, really I don't! It's my upbringing! Society is to blame!)

Re:Septate?

2shortplanks on 2003-12-16T10:39:20

  Septate \Sep"tate\, a. [L. septum, saeptum, partition.]
     Divided by partition or partitions; having septa; as, a
     septate pod or shell.
Yes, see that's what I meant.

Oh who am I trying to kid. It was a typo in the spellchecker. D'oh.

Re:Septate?

eric.t.f.bat on 2003-12-17T00:04:50

So obviously Perl has many septate languages, of which only two are listed above. It's not unreasonable to assume the regexps are the other one.