The file is the README for Regexp::Assemble version 0.01

INSTALLATION

perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install

TESTING

This module requires the following modules for thorough testing:

	Test::More
	Test::Deep
	Test::File::Contents

I suspect I could rewrite the tests with out Test::Deep these days;
Test::More should be sufficient. This is mainly the result of legacy
architectural decisions that no longer hold true.

BASIC USAGE

use Regexp::Assemble;

my $ra = Regexp::Assemble->new;
$ra->add( 'ab+c' );
$ra->add( 'ab+\\d*\\s+c' );
$ra->add( 'a\\w+\\d+' );
$ra->add( 'a\\d+' );
print $ra->re; # prints (?:a(?:b+(?:\d*\s+)?c|(?:\w+)?\d+))

or

my $ra = Regexp::Assemble->new
	->add( 'foo', 'bar', 'baz', 'foom' );

print "$_ matches\n" if /$ra/
	for (qw/word more stuff food rabble bark/);

or

use Regexp::Assemble;
my @word = qw/flip flop slip slop/;

print Regexp::Assemble->new->add(@word)->as_string;
    # produces [fs]l[io]p

print Regexp::Assemble->new->add(@word)->reduce(0)->as_string;
    # produces (?:fl(?:ip|op)|sl(?:ip|op))

See the ./eg directory for some example scripts. More will be added
in subsequent releases.

IMPLEMENTATION NOTES

I'll fill this bit out when in a later release. If you are curious,
you can dump out the internal data struct with the following:

  use Data::Dumper;
  $Data::Dumper::Terse     = 0;
  $Data::Dumper::Indent    = 0;
  $Data::Dumper::Quotekeys = 0;
  $Data::Dumper::Pair      = '=>';

  print Dumper($r->_path);

A more compact representation can also be obtained with

  print Regexp::Assemble::_dump($r->_path);

STATUS

This module is under active development.

AUTHOR

David Landgren <david@landgren.net>

I do appreciate getting e-mail, especially about Perl. Please keep in
mind that I get a lot of spam, and take drastic measures to reduce the
flow. One of the measures involves a gigantic regular expression that
contains many thousands of patterns that match hostnames of dynamic
dialup/residential/home IP addresses. That pattern is of course built
with this module.

It would be ironic if I rejected your mail coming from such an address.
Please use your ISPs outbound MX, or pay what it takes to get your
reverse DNS changed to something else.

COPYRIGHT

This module is copyright (C) David Landgren 2004. All rights reserved.

LICENSE

This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the same terms as Perl itself.