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| author | ph10 <ph10@2f5784b3-3f2a-0410-8824-cb99058d5e15> | 2009-10-02 08:53:31 +0000 |
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| committer | ph10 <ph10@2f5784b3-3f2a-0410-8824-cb99058d5e15> | 2009-10-02 08:53:31 +0000 |
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Documentation update
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diff --git a/doc/perltest.txt b/doc/perltest.txt index ca02690..fbbc10e 100644 --- a/doc/perltest.txt +++ b/doc/perltest.txt @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ The perltest program -------------------- -The perltest program tests Perl's regular expressions; it has the same +The perltest.pl script tests Perl's regular expressions; it has the same specification as pcretest, and so can be given identical input, except that input patterns can be followed only by Perl's lower case modifiers and /+ (as used by pcretest), which is recognized and handled by the program. @@ -14,20 +14,14 @@ modifiers such as /A that pcretest recognizes, and its special data line escapes, are not used in these files. The output should be identical, apart from the initial identifying banner. -The perltest script can also test UTF-8 features. It works as is for Perl 5.8 -or higher. It recognizes the special modifier /8 that pcretest uses to invoke -UTF-8 functionality. The testinput4 file can be fed to perltest to run -compatible UTF-8 tests. +The perltest.pl script can also test UTF-8 features. It recognizes the special +modifier /8 that pcretest uses to invoke UTF-8 functionality. The testinput4 +file can be fed to perltest to run compatible UTF-8 tests. -For Perl 5.6, perltest won't work unmodified for the UTF-8 tests. You need to -uncomment the "use utf8" lines that it contains. It is best to do this on a -copy of the script, because for non-UTF-8 tests, these lines should remain -commented out. - -The other testinput files are not suitable for feeding to perltest, since they -make use of the special upper case modifiers and escapes that pcretest uses to -test some features of PCRE. Some of these files also contains malformed regular -expressions, in order to check that PCRE diagnoses them correctly. +The other testinput files are not suitable for feeding to perltest.pl, since +they make use of the special upper case modifiers and escapes that pcretest +uses to test some features of PCRE. Some of these files also contains malformed +regular expressions, in order to check that PCRE diagnoses them correctly. Philip Hazel -September 2004 +September 2009 |