[SOLVED] How Do I Use Regex::PreSuf???

mrm5102 · 07-18-2011, 09:51 AM

Hey All,

So I just recently downloaded Regex-PreSuf.

I believe it downloaded correctly, and also install correctly (did the following):
> downloaded it
> gzipped
> tar'ed
> perl Makefile.PL
> make
> make test
> make install

This is the file listing after the make install completed:

Code:

drwxr-xr-x 8 user users  4096 Jul 18 10:29 blib
-rwxr-xr-x 1 user users  4684 Feb 26  2006 ChangeLog
-rwxr-xr-x 1 user users 23071 Jul 18 10:29 Makefile
-rwxr-xr-x 1 user users   187 Jul 21  1998 Makefile.PL
-rwxr-xr-x 1 user users   170 Feb 26  2006 MANIFEST
-rwxr-xr-x 1 user users   298 Feb 26  2006 META.yml
-rwxr-xr-x 1 user users     0 Jul 18 10:29 pm_to_blib
-rwxr-xr-x 1 user users  7916 Feb 26  2006 PreSuf.pm
-rwxr-xr-x 1 user users   514 May 11  2000 README
drwx--x--x 2 user users  4096 Feb 26  2006 t

The output from the make, and make install gave the All OK, but there is no documentation with it that shows how to use it?

Does anyone know what you have to do to use it? From what I read, it is used to enter a string and it gives you the regex that matches that string exactly?

This is what I tried, from within the directory and its the output:

Code:

~/Downloads/Regex-PreSuf/Regex-PreSuf-1.17> ./PreSuf.pm Hello World
./PreSuf.pm: line 1: package: command not found
./PreSuf.pm: line 3: use: command not found
./PreSuf.pm: line 4: local: can only be used in a function
./PreSuf.pm: line 5: syntax error near unexpected token `('
./PreSuf.pm: line 5: `use vars qw($VERSION $DEBUG);'

Thanks in advance,
Matt

knudfl · 07-18-2011, 01:32 PM

There is a nice example here http://use.perl.org/~Phred/journal/27727

More examples can be found with Google .. Use Regex::PreSuf
http://www.google.com/webhp#hl=en&cp...w=1152&bih=715

You can of course not do ./PreSuf.pm : It's a text file.
And it is a module, that is meant to be used by another perl script.
( Some perl scripts that have #!/usr/bin/perl or similar in line 1,
can be run with 'perl <script>' ).

PreSuf.pm : http://search.cpan.org/~jhi/Regex-PreSuf-1.17/PreSuf.pm

..

mrm5102 · 07-18-2011, 02:29 PM

Oooh ok... Haha I thought it was a command line cmd.

Thanks, for the links i'll give them a shot.

Thanks,
Matt

mrm5102 · 07-18-2011, 03:30 PM

Hey thanks again for the links. just checked them out and it was perfect.

Thanks,
matt

chrism01 · 07-18-2011, 07:18 PM

Incidentally, you may find it easier (especially if dependencies are involved) to use the CPAN tool as root

Code:

perl -e shell -MCPAN
cpan> install Regex::PreSuf