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| author | ph10 <ph10@2f5784b3-3f2a-0410-8824-cb99058d5e15> | 2009-10-03 16:48:17 +0000 |
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| committer | ph10 <ph10@2f5784b3-3f2a-0410-8824-cb99058d5e15> | 2009-10-03 16:48:17 +0000 |
| commit | c0aaf57a170aff4923dab5442eb87ad8b09d6c58 (patch) | |
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Documentation update.
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diff --git a/doc/perltest.txt b/doc/perltest.txt index fbbc10e..b106390 100644 --- a/doc/perltest.txt +++ b/doc/perltest.txt @@ -8,15 +8,20 @@ used by pcretest), which is recognized and handled by the program. The data lines are processed as Perl double-quoted strings, so if they contain " $ or @ characters, these have to be escaped. For this reason, all such -characters in testinput1 and testinput4 are escaped so that they can be used -for perltest as well as for pcretest. The special upper case pattern -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. +characters in testinput1, testinput4, testinput6, and testinput11 are escaped +so that they can be used for perltest as well as for pcretest. The special +upper case pattern 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.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. +and testinput6 files can be fed to perltest to run compatible UTF-8 tests. +However, it is necessary to add "use utf8;" to the script to make this work +correctly. + +The testinput11 file contains tests that use features of Perl 5.10, so does not +work with Perl 5.8. 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 @@ -24,4 +29,4 @@ 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 2009 +October 2009 |