NAME DESCRIPTIONOPERATORS SYNTAX ESCAPE SEQUENCES CHARACTER CLASSES ANCHORS QUANTIFIERS EXTENDED CONSTRUCTS VARIABLES FUNCTIONS TERMINOLOGY AUTHOR SEE ALSO THANKS NAME perlreref - Perl Regular Expressions Reference DESCRIPTION This is a quick reference to Perl's regular expressions. For full information see perlre and perlop, as well as the SEE ALSO section in this document. OPERATORS =~ determines to which variable the regex is applied. In its absence, $_ is used. $var =~ /foo/; !~ determ

NAME DESCRIPTION The GuideSimple word matching Using character classes Matching this or that Grouping things and hierarchical matching Extracting matches Matching repetitions More matching Search and replace The split operator use re 'strict' BUGS SEE ALSO AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHTAcknowledgments NAME perlrequick - Perl regular expressions quick start DESCRIPTION This page covers the very basics of understanding, creating and using regular expressions ('regexes') in Perl. The Guide Simple word

NAME DESCRIPTION NAME perlrepository - Links to current information on the Perl source repository DESCRIPTION Perl's source code is stored in a Git repository. See perlhack for an explanation of Perl development, including the Super Quick Patch Guide for making and submitting a small patch. See perlgit for detailed information about Perl's Git repository. (The above documents supersede the information that was formerly here in perlrepository.)

NAME DESCRIPTION OVERVIEWA quick note on terms What is a regular expression engine? Structure of a Regexp Program Process OverviewCompilation Execution MISCELLANEOUSUnicode and Localisation Support Base Structures SEE ALSO AUTHOR LICENCE REFERENCES NAME perlreguts - Description of the Perl regular expression engine. DESCRIPTION This document is an attempt to shine some light on the guts of the regex engine and how it works. The regex engine represents a significant chunk of the perl cod

NAME DESCRIPTION Who Needs Complicated Data Structures? The Solution SyntaxMaking References Using References An Example Arrow Rule Solution The Rest Summary CreditsDistribution Conditions NAME perlreftut - Mark's very short tutorial about references DESCRIPTION One of the most important new features in Perl 5 was the capability to manage complicated data structures like multidimensional arrays and nested hashes. To enable these, Perl 5 introduced a feature called 'references', and using r

NAME NOTE DESCRIPTIONMaking References Using References Circular References Symbolic references Not-so-symbolic references Pseudo-hashes: Using an array as a hash Function Templates WARNING Postfix Dereference SyntaxPostfix Reference Slicing Assigning to References SEE ALSO NAME perlref - Perl references and nested data structures NOTE This is complete documentation about all aspects of references. For a shorter, tutorial introduction to just the essential features, see perlreftut

NAME DESCRIPTIONThe dot Backslash sequences Bracketed Character Classes NAME perlrecharclass - Perl Regular Expression Character Classes DESCRIPTION The top level documentation about Perl regular expressions is found in perlre. This manual page discusses the syntax and use of character classes in Perl regular expressions. A character class is a way of denoting a set of characters in such a way that one character of the set is matched. It's important to remember that: matching a character

NAME DESCRIPTIONThe backslash All the sequences and escapes Character Escapes Modifiers Character classes Referencing Assertions Misc NAME perlrebackslash - Perl Regular Expression Backslash Sequences and Escapes DESCRIPTION The top level documentation about Perl regular expressions is found in perlre. This document describes all backslash and escape sequences. After explaining the role of the backslash, it lists all the sequences that have a special meaning in Perl regular expressions (in

NAME DESCRIPTION Callbackscomp exec intuit checkstr free Numbered capture callbacks Named capture callbacks qr_package dupe op_comp The REGEXP structureengine mother_re extflags minlen minlenret gofs substrs nparens, lastparen, and lastcloseparen intflags pprivate swap offs precomp prelen paren_names substrs subbeg sublen saved_copy suboffset subcoffset wrapped wraplen seen_evals refcnt HISTORY AUTHORS LICENSE NAME perlreapi - Perl regular expression plugin interface DESCRIPTION As of Per

NAME DESCRIPTIONModifiers Regular Expressions Quoting metacharacters Extended Patterns Special Backtracking Control Verbs Backtracking Version 8 Regular Expressions Warning on \1 Instead of $1 Repeated Patterns Matching a Zero-length Substring Combining RE Pieces Creating Custom RE Engines Embedded Code Execution Frequency PCRE/Python Support BUGS SEE ALSO NAME perlre - Perl regular expressions DESCRIPTION This page describes the syntax of regular expressions in Perl. If you haven't use