NAME Text::Balanced - Extract delimited text sequences from strings. SUMMARY (see Balanced.pod for full details) Text::Balanced::extract_delimited `extract_delimited' extracts the initial substring of a string which is delimited by a user-specified set of single-character delimiters, whilst ignoring any backslash-escaped delimiter characters. Text::Balanced::extract_bracketed `extract_bracketed' extracts a balanced-bracket-delimited substring (using any one (or more) of the user-specified delimiter brackets: '(..)', '{..}', '[..]', or '<..>'). Text::Balanced::extract_quotelike `extract_quotelike' attempts to recognize and extract any one of the various Perl quote and quotelike operators (see "perlop(3)"). Embedded backslashed delimiters, nested bracket delimiters (for the quotelike operators), and trailing modifiers are all correctly handled. Text::Balanced::extract_codeblock `extract_codeblock' attempts to recognize and extract a balanced bracket-delimited substring which may also contain unbalanced brackets inside Perl quotes or quotelike operations. That is, `extract_codeblock' is like a combination of `extract_bracketed' and `extract_quotelike'. INSTALLATION It's all pure Perl, so just put the .pm file in its appropriate local Perl subdirectory. CHANGES This is version 1.10. Previous version was 1.01. See the file "Changes" for details. AUTHOR Damian Conway (damian@cs.monash.edu.au) COPYRIGHT Copyright (c) 1997, Damian Conway. All Rights Reserved. This module is free software. It may be used, redistributed and/or modified under the terms of the Perl Artistic License (see http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html)