[za-pm] Text::Format

[Anne Wainwright]

Hi, Sean

Thanks for the input. I dwill look at a few variations on the theme
this evening.

I assumed that the Text::Format would take care of the whitespace and
that we need only specify the two words that we are not going to break.

Note that \s is whitespace, \S is non-whitespace, ie it includes any
letters and puntuation which is why, I assumed, that it was used in the
example regex. A bit of a catchall, standing for 'Jones' in this
example.

Any way you are not commenting on my hash construction which is good
news. I'll keep the group posted,

Anne



On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 07:27:31AM +0200, Sean Carte wrote:
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> 
> On 29 August 2012 21:53, Anne Wainwright <anotheranne at fables.co.za> wrote:
> >                {'^Mrs?\.
> > => '^\S+,'^\S+ => '^(?:S|J)r\.}
> >
> >            don't break names such as Mr. Jones, Mrs. Jones, Jones Jr.
> 
> >
> > So I have the following to get my regex into a hash:
> >
> >     my  %regx = ('^isbn=>'^[0-9]{9,13}X?);  # my regex
> 
> Not that I know anything about this, but, given the example above,
> shouldn't your regex be more like:
> 
> '^isbn=>'^\S+[0-9]{9,13}X?
> 
> That is, including the whitespace?
> 
> Sean
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