Re: Alternation in pattern matches

Your example isn't 100% clear about which of the test cases have valid data and which don't. One way to make things clearer is to allow for (and ignore) comment lines:

  while ( <DATA> ) {
      next if /^(?:#.*|\s*)$/;
      ...
   }
   __DATA__
   # These should pass
   TAG:"test of data"
   ...
   # These should fail
   TAG: test
   ...
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That saves us from having to guess, and removes the risk of our guessing wrong.

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Re: Re: Alternation in pattern matches by guha (Priest) on Feb 19, 2004 at 09:12 UTC
Yes you are correct, it's not 100% clear, but fairly close I would say given the sentence. The program below already does the right thing, but I have .... During the composal of the node, the idea of including test ala Test::More occurred to me, but laziness got the better of me. Anyway your idea with comments in the DATA section is nice and I will try to remember that. Thanks for your input dws, as always mature and experienced in a particular way	[reply]

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Re: Re: Alternation in pattern matches
by guha (Priest) on Feb 19, 2004 at 09:12 UTC

Yes you are correct, it's not 100% clear, but fairly close I would say given the sentence.

The program below already does the right thing, but I have ....

During the composal of the node, the idea of including test ala Test::More occurred to me, but laziness got the better of me.

Anyway your idea with comments in the DATA section is nice and I will try to remember that.

Thanks for your input dws, as always mature and experienced in a particular way

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