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RegExp::Common::comment(3)




NAME

       Regexp::Common::comment -- provide regexes for comments.


SYNOPSIS

           use Regexp::Common qw /comment/;

           while (<>) {
               /$RE{comment}{C}/       and  print "Contains a C comment\n";
               /$RE{comment}{C++}/     and  print "Contains a C++ comment\n";
               /$RE{comment}{PHP}/     and  print "Contains a PHP comment\n";
               /$RE{comment}{Java}/    and  print "Contains a Java comment\n";
               /$RE{comment}{Perl}/    and  print "Contains a Perl comment\n";
               /$RE{comment}{awk}/     and  print "Contains an awk comment\n";
               /$RE{comment}{HTML}/    and  print "Contains an HTML comment\n";
           }

           use Regexp::Common qw /comment RE_comment_HTML/;

           while (<>) {
               $_ =~ RE_comment_HTML() and  print "Contains an HTML comment\n";
           }


DESCRIPTION

       Please consult the manual of Regexp::Common for a general description
       of the works of this interface.

       Do not use this module directly, but load it via Regexp::Common.

       This modules gives you regular expressions for comments in various
       languages.

       THE LANGUAGES

       Below, the comments of each of the languages are described.  The
       patterns are available as $RE{comment}{LANG}, foreach language LANG.
       Some languages have variants; it's described at the individual
       languages how to get the patterns for the variants.  Unless mentioned
       otherwise, "{-keep}" sets $1, $2, $3 and $4 to the entire comment, the
       opening marker, the content of the comment, and the closing marker (for
       many languages, the latter is a newline) respectively.

       ABC Comments in ABC start with a backslash ("\"), and last till the end
           of the line.  See <http://homepages.cwi.nl/%7Esteven/abc/>.

       Ada Comments in Ada start with "--", and last till the end of the line.

       Advisor
           Advisor is a language used by the HP product glance. Comments for
           this language start with either "#" or "//", and last till the end
           of the line.

       Advsys
           Comments for the Advsys language start with ";" and last till the
           end of the line. See also <http://www.wurb.com/if/devsys/12>.

       Alan
           Alan comments start with "--", and last till the end of the line.
           See also
           <http://w1.132.telia.com/~u13207378/alan/manual/alanTOC.html>.

       Algol 60
           Comments in the Algol 60 language start with the keyword "comment",
           and end with a ";". See
           <http://www.masswerk.at/algol60/report.htm>.

       Algol 68
           In Algol 68, comments are either delimited by "#", or by one of the
           keywords "co" or "comment". The keywords should not be part of
           another word. See
           <http://westein.arb-phys.uni-dortmund.de/~wb/a68s.txt>.  With
           "{-keep}", only $1 will be set, returning the entire comment.

       ALPACA
           The ALPACA language has comments starting with "/*" and ending with
           "*/".

       awk The awk programming language uses comments that start with "#" and
           end at the end of the line.

       B   The B language has comments starting with "/*" and ending with
           "*/".

       BASIC
           There are various forms of BASIC around. Currently, we only support
           the variant supported by mvEnterprise, whose pattern is available
           as $RE{comment}{BASIC}{mvEnterprise}. Comments in this language
           start with a "!", a "*" or the keyword "REM", and end till the end
           of the line. See
           <http://www.rainingdata.com/products/beta/docs/mve/50/ReferenceManual/Basic.pdf>.

       Beatnik
           The esotoric language Beatnik only uses words consisting of
           letters.  Words are scored according to the rules of Scrabble.
           Words scoring less than 5 points, or 18 points or more are
           considered comments (although the compiler might mock at you if you
           score less than 5 points).  Regardless whether "{-keep}", $1 will
           be set, and set to the entire comment. This pattern requires perl
           5.8.0 or newer.

       beta-Juliet
           The beta-Juliet programming language has comments that start with
           "//" and that continue till the end of the line. See also
           <http://www.catseye.mb.ca/esoteric/b-juliet/index.html>.

       Befunge-98
           The esotoric language Befunge-98 uses comments that start and end
           with a ";". See
           <http://www.catseye.mb.ca/esoteric/befunge/98/spec98.html>.

       BML BML, or Better Markup Language is an HTML templating language that
           uses comments starting with "<?c_", and ending with "c_?>".  See
           <http://www.livejournal.com/doc/server/bml.index.html>.

       Brainfuck
           The minimal language Brainfuck uses only eight characters, "<",
           ">", "[", "]", "+", "-", "." and ",".  Any other characters are
           considered comments. With "{-keep}", $1 is set to the entire
           comment.

       C   The C language has comments starting with "/*" and ending with
           "*/".

       C-- The C-- language has comments starting with "/*" and ending with
           "*/".  See
           <http://cs.uas.arizona.edu/classes/453/programs/C--Spec.html>.

       C++ The C++ language has two forms of comments. Comments that start
           with "//" and last till the end of the line, and comments that
           start with "/*", and end with "*/". If "{-keep}" is used, only $1
           will be set, and set to the entire comment.

       C#  The C# language has two forms of comments. Comments that start with
           "//" and last till the end of the line, and comments that start
           with "/*", and end with "*/". If "{-keep}" is used, only $1 will be
           set, and set to the entire comment.  See
           <http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/csspec/html/vclrfcsharpspec_C.asp>.

       Caml
           Comments in Caml start with "(*", end with "*)", and can be nested.
           See <http://www.cs.caltech.edu/courses/cs134/cs134b/book.pdf> and
           <http://pauillac.inria.fr/caml/index-eng.html>.

       Cg  The Cg language has two forms of comments. Comments that start with
           "//" and last till the end of the line, and comments that start
           with "/*", and end with "*/". If "{-keep}" is used, only $1 will be
           set, and set to the entire comment.  See
           <http://developer.nvidia.com/attach/3722>.

       CLU In "CLU", a comment starts with a procent sign ("%"), and ends with
           the next newline. See
           <ftp://ftp.lcs.mit.edu:/pub/pclu/CLU-syntax.ps> and
           <http://www.pmg.lcs.mit.edu/CLU.html>.

       COBOL
           Traditionally, comments in COBOL are indicated by an asteriks in
           the seventh column. This is what the pattern matches. Modern
           compiler may more lenient though. See
           <http://www.csis.ul.ie/cobol/Course/COBOLIntro.htm>, and
           <http://www.csis.ul.ie/cobol/default.htm>. Due to a bug in the
           regexp engine of perl 5.6.x, this regexp is only available in
           version 5.8.0 and up.

       CQL Comments in the chess query language (CQL) start with a semi colon
           (";") and last till the end of the line. See
           <http://www.rbnn.com/cql/>.

       Crystal Report
           The formula editor in Crystal Reports uses comments that start with
           "//", and end with the end of the line.

       Dylan
           There are two types of comments in Dylan. They either start with
           "//", or are nested comments, delimited with "/*" and "*/".  Under
           "{-keep}", only $1 will be set, returning the entire comment.  This
           pattern requires perl 5.6.0 or newer.

       ECMAScript
           The ECMAScript language has two forms of comments. Comments that
           start with "//" and last till the end of the line, and comments
           that start with "/*", and end with "*/". If "{-keep}" is used, only
           $1 will be set, and set to the entire comment. JavaScript is
           Netscapes implementation of ECMAScript. See
           <http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/files/ecma-st/Ecma-262.pdf>,
           and
           <http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-262.htm>.

       Eiffel
           Eiffel comments start with "--", and last till the end of the line.

       False
           In False, comments start with "{" and end with "}".  See
           <http://wouter.fov120.com/false/false.txt>

       FPL The FPL language has two forms of comments. Comments that start
           with "//" and last till the end of the line, and comments that
           start with "/*", and end with "*/". If "{-keep}" is used, only $1
           will be set, and set to the entire comment.

       Forth
           Comments in Forth start with "\", and end with the end of the line.
           See also <http://docs.sun.com/sb/doc/806-1377-10>.

       Fortran
           There are two forms of Fortran. There's free form Fortran, which
           has comments that start with "!", and end at the end of the line.
           The pattern for this is given by $RE{Fortran}. Fixed form Fortran,
           which has been obsoleted, has comments that start with "C", "c" or
           "*" in the first column, or with "!" anywhere, but the sixth
           column.  The pattern for this are given by $RE{Fortran}{fixed}.

           See also
           <http://www.cray.com/craydoc/manuals/007-3692-005/html-007-3692-005/>.

       Funge-98
           The esotoric language Funge-98 uses comments that start and end
           with a ";".

       fvwm2
           Configuration files for fvwm2 have comments starting with a "#" and
           lasting the rest of the line.

       Haifu
           Haifu, an esotoric language using haikus, has comments starting and
           ending with a ",".  See
           <http://www.dangermouse.net/esoteric/haifu.html>.

       Haskell
           There are two types of comments in Haskell. They either start with
           at least two dashes, or are nested comments, delimited with "{-"
           and "-}".  Under "{-keep}", only $1 will be set, returning the
           entire comment.  This pattern requires perl 5.6.0 or newer.

       HTML
           In HTML, comments only appear inside a comment declaration.  A
           comment declaration starts with a "<!", and ends with a ">". Inside
           this declaration, we have zero or more comments.  Comments starts
           with "--" and end with "--", and are optionally followed by
           whitespace. The pattern $RE{comment}{HTML} recognizes those comment
           declarations (and hence more than a comment).  Note that this is
           not the same as something that starts with "<!--" and ends with
           "-->", because the following will be matched completely:

               <!--  First  Comment   --
                 --> Second Comment <!--
                 --  Third  Comment   -->

           Do not be fooled by what your favourite browser thinks is an HTML
           comment.

           If "{-keep}" is used, the following are returned:

           $1  captures the entire comment declaration.

           $2  captures the MDO (markup declaration open), "<!".

           $3  captures the content between the MDO and the MDC.

           $4  captures the (last) comment, without the surrounding dashes.

           $5  captures the MDC (markup declaration close), ">".

       Hugo
           There are two types of comments in Hugo. They either start with "!"
           (which cannot be followed by a "\"), or are nested comments,
           delimited with "!\" and "\!".  Under "{-keep}", only $1 will be
           set, returning the entire comment.  This pattern requires perl
           5.6.0 or newer.

       Icon
           Icon has comments that start with "#" and end at the next new line.
           See
           <http://www.toolsofcomputing.com/IconHandbook/IconHandbook.pdf>,
           <http://www.cs.arizona.edu/icon/index.htm>, and
           <http://burks.bton.ac.uk/burks/language/icon/index.htm>.

       ILLGOL
           The esotoric language ILLGOL uses comments starting with NB and
           lasting till the end of the line.  See
           <http://www.catseye.mb.ca/esoteric/illgol/index.html>.

       INTERCAL
           Comments in INTERCAL are single line comments. They start with one
           of the keywords "NOT" or "N'T", and can optionally be preceeded by
           the keywords "DO" and "PLEASE". If both keywords are used, "PLEASE"
           preceeds "DO". Keywords are separated by whitespace.

       J   The language J uses comments that start with "NB.", and that last
           till the end of the line. See
           <http://www.jsoftware.com/books/help/primer/contents.htm>, and
           <http://www.jsoftware.com/>.

       Java
           The Java language has two forms of comments. Comments that start
           with "//" and last till the end of the line, and comments that
           start with "/*", and end with "*/". If "{-keep}" is used, only $1
           will be set, and set to the entire comment.

       JavaScript
           The JavaScript language has two forms of comments. Comments that
           start with "//" and last till the end of the line, and comments
           that start with "/*", and end with "*/". If "{-keep}" is used, only
           $1 will be set, and set to the entire comment. JavaScript is
           Netscapes implementation of ECMAScript.  See
           <http://www.mozilla.org/js/language/E262-3.pdf>, and
           <http://www.mozilla.org/js/language/>.

       LaTeX
           The documentation language LaTeX uses comments starting with "%"
           and ending at the end of the line.

       Lisp
           Comments in Lisp start with a semi-colon (";") and last till the
           end of the line.

       LPC The LPC language has comments starting with "/*" and ending with
           "*/".

       LOGO
           Comments for the language LOGO start with ";", and last till the
           end of the line.

       lua Comments for the lua language start with "--", and last till the
           end of the line. See also <http://www.lua.org/manual/manual.html>.

       M, MUMPS
           In "M" (aka "MUMPS"), comments start with a semi-colon, and last
           till the end of a line. The language specification requires the
           semi-colon to be preceeded by one or more linestart characters.
           Those characters default to a space, but that's configurable. This
           requirement, of preceeding the comment with linestart characters is
           not tested for. See
           <ftp://ftp.intersys.com/pub/openm/ism/ism64docs.zip>,
           <http://mtechnology.intersys.com/mproducts/openm/index.html>, and
           <http://mcenter.com/mtrc/index.html>.

       m4  By default, the preprocessor language m4 uses single line comments,
           that start with a "#" and continue to the end of the line,
           including the newline. The pattern "$RE {comment} {m4}" matches
           such comments.  In m4, it is possible to change the starting token
           though.  See
           <http://wolfram.schneider.org/bsd/7thEdManVol2/m4/m4.pdf>,
           <http://www.cs.stir.ac.uk/~kjt/research/pdf/expl-m4.pdf>, and
           <http://www.gnu.org/software/m4/manual/>.

       Modula-2
           In "Modula-2", comments start with "(*", and end with "*)".
           Comments may be nested. See <http://www.modula2.org/>.

       Modula-3
           In "Modula-3", comments start with "(*", and end with "*)".
           Comments may be nested. See <http://www.m3.org/>.

       mutt
           Configuration files for mutt have comments starting with a "#" and
           lasting the rest of the line.

       Nickle
           The Nickle language has one line comments starting with "#" (like
           Perl), or multiline comments delimited by "/*" and "*/" (like C).
           Under "-keep", only $1 will be set. See also
           <http://www.nickle.org>.

       Oberon
           Comments in Oberon start with "(*" and end with "*)".  See
           <http://www.oberon.ethz.ch/oreport.html>.

       Pascal
           There are many implementations of Pascal. This modules provides
           pattern for comments of several implementations.

           $RE{comment}{Pascal}
               This is the pattern that recognizes comments according to the
               Pascal ISO standard. This standard says that comments start
               with either "{", or "(*", and end with "}" or "*)". This means
               that "{*)" and "(*}" are considered to be comments. Many Pascal
               applications don't allow this.  See
               <http://www.pascal-central.com/docs/iso10206.txt>

           $RE{comment}{Alice}
               The Alice Pascal compiler accepts comments that start with "{"
               and end with "}". Comments are not allowed to contain newlines.
               See <http://www.templetons.com/brad/alice/language/>.

           $RE{comment}{Pascal}{Delphi}, $RE{comment}{Pascal}{Free} and
           $RE{comment}{Pascal}{GPC}
               The Delphi Pascal, Free Pascal and the Gnu Pascal Compiler
               implementations of Pascal all have comments that either start
               with "//" and last till the end of the line, are delimited with
               "{" and "}" or are delimited with "(*" and "*)". Patterns for
               those comments are given by $RE{comment}{Pascal}{Delphi},
               $RE{comment}{Pascal}{Free} and $RE{comment}{Pascal}{GPC}
               respectively. These patterns only set $1 when "{-keep}" is
               used, which will then include the entire comment.

               See <http://info.borland.com/techpubs/delphi5/oplg/>,
               <http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/ref/ref.html> and
               <http://www.gnu-pascal.de/gpc/>.

           $RE{comment}{Pascal}{Workshop}
               The Workshop Pascal compiler, from SUN Microsystems, allows
               comments that are delimited with either "{" and "}", delimited
               with "(*)" and "*"), delimited with "/*", and "*/", or starting
               and ending with a double quote ("""). When "{-keep}" is used,
               only $1 is set, and returns the entire comment.

               See <http://docs.sun.com/db/doc/802-5762>.

       PEARL
           Comments in PEARL start with a "!" and last till the end of the
           line, or start with "/*" and end with "*/". With "{-keep}", $1 will
           be set to the entire comment.

       PHP Comments in PHP start with either "#" or "//" and last till the end
           of the line, or are delimited by "/*" and "*/". With "{-keep}", $1
           will be set to the entire comment.

       PL/B
           In PL/B, comments start with either "." or ";", and end with the
           next newline. See <http://www.mmcctech.com/pl-b/plb-0010.htm>.

       PL/I
           The PL/I language has comments starting with "/*" and ending with
           "*/".

       PL/SQL
           In PL/SQL, comments either start with "--" and run till the end of
           the line, or start with "/*" and end with "*/".

       Perl
           Perl uses comments that start with a "#", and continue till the end
           of the line.

       Portia
           The Portia programming language has comments that start with "//",
           and last till the end of the line.

       Python
           Python uses comments that start with a "#", and continue till the
           end of the line.

       Q-BAL
           Comments in the Q-BAL language start with "`" (a backtick), and
           contine till the end of the line.

       QML In "QML", comments start with "#" and last till the end of the
           line.  See <http://www.questionmark.com/uk/qml/overview.doc>.

       R   The statistical language R uses comments that start with a "#" and
           end with the following new line. See <http://www.r-project.org/>.

       REBOL
           Comments for the REBOL language start with ";" and last till the
           end of the line.

       Ruby
           Comments in Ruby start with "#" and last till the end of the time.

       Scheme
           Scheme comments start with ";", and last till the end of the line.
           See <http://schemers.org/>.

       shell
           Comments in various shells start with a "#" and end at the end of
           the line.

       Shelta
           The esotoric language Shelta uses comments that start and end with
           a ";". See <http://www.catseye.mb.ca/esoteric/shelta/index.html>.

       SLIDE
           The SLIDE language has two froms of comments. First there is the
           line comment, which starts with a "#" and includes the rest of the
           line (just like Perl). Second, there is the multiline, nested
           comment, which are delimited by "(*" and "*)". Under C{-keep}>,
           only $1 is set, and is set to the entire comment. This pattern
           needs at least Perl version 5.6.0. See
           <http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~ug/slide/docs/slide/spec/spec_frame_intro.shtml>.

       slrn
           Configuration files for slrn have comments starting with a "%" and
           lasting the rest of the line.

       Smalltalk
           Smalltalk uses comments that start and end with a double quote,
           """.

       SMITH
           Comments in the SMITH language start with ";", and last till the
           end of the line.

       Squeak
           In the Smalltalk variant Squeak, comments start and end with """.
           Double quotes can appear inside comments by doubling them.

       SQL Standard SQL uses comments starting with two or more dashes, and
           ending at the end of the line.

           MySQL does not follow the standard. Instead, it allows comments
           that start with a "#" or "-- " (that's two dashes and a space)
           ending with the following newline, and comments starting with "/*",
           and ending with the next ";" or "*/" that isn't inside single or
           double quotes. A pattern for this is returned by
           $RE{comment}{SQL}{MySQL}. With "{-keep}", only $1 will be set, and
           it returns the entire comment.

       Tcl In Tcl, comments start with "#" and continue till the end of the
           line.

       TeX The documentation language TeX uses comments starting with "%" and
           ending at the end of the line.

       troff
           The document formatting language troff uses comments starting with
           "\"", and continuing till the end of the line.

       Ubercode
           The Windows programming language Ubercode uses comments that start
           with "//" and continue to the end of the line. See
           <http://www.ubercode.com>.

       vi  In configuration files for the editor vi, one can use comments
           starting with """, and ending at the end of the line.

       *W  In the language *W, comments start with "||", and end with "!!".

       zonefile
           Comments in DNS zonefiles start with ";", and continue till the end
           of the line.

       ZZT-OOP
           The in-game language ZZT-OOP uses comments that start with a "'"
           character, and end at the following newline. See
           <http://dave2.rocketjump.org/rad/zzthelp/lang.html>.


REFERENCES

       [Go 90]
           Charles F. Goldfarb: The SGML Handbook. Oxford: Oxford University
           Press. 1990. ISBN 0-19-853737-9. Ch. 10.3, pp 390-391.


HISTORY

        $Log: comment.pm,v $
        Revision 2.120  2008/05/26 15:46:07  abigail
        Fix "Variable "%s" is not available

        Revision 2.119  2008/05/26 15:43:52  abigail
        Fixed bug in pattern for Pascal comments

        Revision 2.118  2008/05/23 21:30:09  abigail
        Changed email address

        Revision 2.117  2008/05/23 21:28:01  abigail
        Changed license

        Revision 2.116  2005/03/16 00:00:02  abigail
        CQL, INTERCAL, R

        Revision 2.115  2005/01/09 23:12:03  abigail
        BML comments

        Revision 2.114  2004/12/18 11:43:06  abigail
        POD: HTML comments end in >, not <

        Revision 2.113  2004/12/15 22:06:51  abigail
        Fixed regex for J comments

        Revision 2.112  2004/06/09 21:44:48  abigail
        New languages

        Revision 2.111  2003/09/24 08:39:35  abigail
        Stupid "syntax" warning issues false positives

        Revision 2.110  2003/08/19 21:27:55  abigail
        Nickle language

        Revision 2.109  2003/08/13 10:07:39  abigail
        Added patterns for C--, C#, Cg and SLIDE comments

        Revision 2.108  2003/08/01 11:30:25  abigail
        Comments for 'QML' and 'PL/SQL'

        Revision 2.107  2003/05/25 21:33:48  abigail
        POD nits from Bryan C. Warnock

        Revision 2.106  2003/03/12 22:25:42  abigail
        - More generic setup to define comments for various languages.
        - Expanded and redid the documentation for comment.pm.
        - Comments for Advisor, Advsys, Alan, Algol 60, Algol 68, B,
          BASIC (mvEnterprise), Forth, Fortran (both fixed and free form),
          fvwm2, mutt, Oberon, 6 versions of Pascal,
          PEARL (one of the at least four...), PL/B, PL/I, slrn, Squeak.

        Revision 2.105  2003/03/09 19:04:42  abigail
        - More generic setup to define comments for various languages.
        - Expanded and redid the documentation for comment.pm.
          Now every language has its own paragraph, describing its comment,
          and pointers to webpages.
        - Comments for Advisor, Advsys, Alan, Algol 60, Algol 68, B, BASIC
          (mvEnterprise), Forth, Fortran (both fixed and free form), fvwm2, mutt,
          Oberon, 6 versions of Pascal, PEARL (one of the at least four...), PL/B,
          PL/I, slrn, Squeak.

        Revision 2.104  2003/02/21 14:48:06  abigail
        Crystal Reports

        Revision 2.103  2003/02/11 09:39:08  abigail
        Added

        Revision 2.102  2003/02/07 15:23:54  abigail
        Lua and FPL

        Revision 2.101  2003/02/01 22:55:31  abigail
        Changed Copyright years

        Revision 2.100  2003/01/21 23:19:40  abigail
        The whole world understands RCS/CVS version numbers, that 1.9 is an
        older version than 1.10. Except CPAN. Curse the idiot(s) who think
        that version numbers are floats (in which universe do floats have
        more than one decimal dot?).
        Everything is bumped to version 2.100 because CPAN couldn't deal
        with the fact one file had version 1.10.

        Revision 1.19  2002/11/06 13:51:34  abigail
        Minor POD changes.

        Revision 1.18  2002/09/18 18:13:01  abigail
        Fixes for 5.005

        Revision 1.17  2002/09/04 17:04:24  abigail
        Q-BAL

        Revision 1.16  2002/08/27 16:50:50  abigail
        Patterns for Beatnik, Befunge-98, Funge-98 and W*.

        Revision 1.15  2002/08/22 17:04:03  abigail
        SMITH added

        Revision 1.14  2002/08/22 16:41:25  abigail
        + Added function 'id' and 'from_to' with associated data.
        + Added function 'combine' for languages having multiple syntaxes.
        + Added 'Shelta'

        Revision 1.13  2002/08/21 16:00:32  abigail
        beta-Juliet, Portia, ILLGOL and Brainfuck.

        Revision 1.12  2002/08/20 17:40:37  abigail
        - Created a 'nested' function (simplified version from
          Regexp::Common::balanced).
        - Comments that use 'from' to eol or balanced (nested) delimiters
          are now generated from a data array.
        - Added Hugo and Haifu.

        Revision 1.11  2002/08/05 12:16:58  abigail
        Fixed 'Regex::' and 'Rexexp::' typos to 'Regexp::'
        (Found my Mike Castle).

        Revision 1.10  2002/07/31 23:33:16  abigail
        Documented that Haskell and Dylan comments need at least 5.6.0.

        Revision 1.9  2002/07/31 23:12:29  abigail
        Dylan and Haskell comments can be nested, hence version 5.6.0 of Perl
        is needed to be able to make a regex matching them.

        Revision 1.8  2002/07/31 14:48:16  abigail
        Added LOGO (to please petdance)

        Revision 1.7  2002/07/31 13:06:41  abigail
        Dealt with -keep for Haskell and Dylan.

        Revision 1.6  2002/07/31 00:54:00  abigail
        Added comments for Haskell, Dylan, Smalltalk and MySQL.

        Revision 1.5  2002/07/30 16:38:23  abigail
        Added support for the languages: LaTeX, Tcl, TeX and troff.

        Revision 1.4  2002/07/26 16:48:12  abigail
        Simplied datastructure for the languages that use single line comments.

        Revision 1.3  2002/07/26 16:37:20  abigail
        Added new languages: Ada, awk, Eiffel, Java, LPC, PHP, Python,
        REBOL, Ruby, vi and zonefile.

        Revision 1.2  2002/07/25 22:37:44  abigail
        Added 'use strict'.
        Added 'no_defaults' to 'use Regex::Common' to prevent loaded of all
        defaults.

        Revision 1.1  2002/07/25 19:56:07  abigail
        Modularizing Regexp::Common.


SEE ALSO

       Regexp::Common(3) for a general description of how to use this interface.


AUTHOR

       Damian Conway (damian@conway.org)


MAINTAINANCE

       This package is maintained by Abigail (regexp-common@abigail.be).


BUGS AND IRRITATIONS

       Bound to be plenty.

       For a start, there are many common regexes missing.  Send them in to
       regexp-common@abigail.be.


COPYRIGHT

       This software is Copyright (c) 2001 - 2008, Damian Conway and Abigail.

       This module is free software, and maybe used under any of the following
       licenses:

        1) The Perl Artistic License.     See the file COPYRIGHT.AL.
        2) The Perl Artistic License 2.0. See the file COPYRIGHT.AL2.
        3) The BSD Licence.               See the file COPYRIGHT.BSD.
        4) The MIT Licence.               See the file COPYRIGHT.MIT.



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