============================================================================== Release of version 1.85 of Text::Balanced ============================================================================== 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'. Text::Balanced::extract_tagged `extract_tagged' attempts to recognize and extract a substring between two arbitrary "tag" patterns (a start tag and an end tag). INSTALLATION It's all pure Perl, so just put the .pm file in its appropriate local Perl subdirectory. AUTHOR Damian Conway (damian@cs.monash.edu.au) COPYRIGHT Copyright (c) 1997-2000, 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) ============================================================================== CHANGES IN VERSION 1.85 - Fixed bug in extract_variable recognizing method calls that start with an underscore (thanks Jeff) ============================================================================== AVAILABILITY Text::Balanced has been uploaded to the CPAN and is also available from: http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~damian/CPAN/Text-Balanced.tar.gz ==============================================================================