Regexp::Common::URI::nUser3Contributed Perl DocumRegexp::Common::URI::news(3p)



NAME
       Regexp::Common::URI::news -- Returns a pattern for file URIs.

SYNOPSIS
           use Regexp::Common qw /URI/;

           while (<>) {
               /$RE{URI}{news}/       and  print "Contains a news URI.\n";
           }

DESCRIPTION
   $RE{URI}{news}
       Returns a pattern that matches news URIs, as defined by RFC 1738.  News
       URIs have the form:

           "news:" ( "*" | group | article "@" host )

       Under "{-keep}", the following are returned:

       $1  The complete URI.

       $2  The scheme.

       $3  The part of the URI following "news://".

   $RE{URI}{NNTP}
       Returns a pattern that matches NNTP URIs, as defined by RFC 1738.  NNTP
       URIs have the form:

           "nntp://" host [ ":" port ] "/" group [ "/" digits ]

       Under "{-keep}", the following are returned:

       $1  The complete URI.

       $2  The scheme.

       $3  The part of the URI following "nntp://".

       $4  The host and port, separated by a colon. If no port was given, just
           the host.

       $5  The host.

       $6  The port, if given.

       $7  The group.

       $8  The digits, if given.

REFERENCES
       [RFC 1738]
           Berners-Lee, Tim, Masinter, L., McCahill, M.: Uniform Resource
           Locators (URL). December 1994.

SEE ALSO
       Regexp::Common::URI for other supported URIs.

AUTHOR
       Damian Conway (damian@conway.org)

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

BUGS AND IRRITATIONS
       Bound to be plenty.

LICENSE and COPYRIGHT
       This software is Copyright (c) 2001 - 2009, 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.



perl v5.12.2                      2010-02-23     Regexp::Common::URI::news(3p)
