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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 5a404016b5..0000000000 --- a/ext/pcre/pcrelib/doc/perltest.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,29 +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. - -For testing UTF-8 features, an alternative form of perltest, called perltest8, -is supplied. This requires Perl 5.6 or higher. It recognizes the special -modifier /8 that pcretest uses to invoke UTF-8 functionality. The testinput5 -file can be fed to perltest8. - -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 2000 |