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diff --git a/ext/pcre/pcrelib/doc/perltest.txt b/ext/pcre/pcrelib/doc/perltest.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 9ea9d932a5..0000000000 --- a/ext/pcre/pcrelib/doc/perltest.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,34 +0,0 @@ -The perltest program --------------------- - -The perltest program 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. - -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 testinput3 are escaped so that they can be used -for perltest as well as for pcretest, and the special upper case modifiers such -as /A that pcretest recognizes 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 testinput5 file can be fed to perltest to run 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 testinput2 and testinput4 files are not suitable for feeding to perltest, -since they do make use of the special upper case modifiers and escapes that -pcretest uses to test some features of PCRE. The first of these files also -contains malformed regular expressions, in order to check that PCRE diagnoses -them correctly. Similarly, testinput6 tests UTF-8 features that do not relate -to Perl. - -Philip Hazel <ph10@cam.ac.uk> -August 2002 |