I wonder about Regexp::Common. I often have tasks that a regular-expression related and then I look at what the module offers and usually it doesn't have what I need.

By "what I Need" I mean 2 things. (a) it lacks a certain common regular expression (b) it lacks a certain tasks related to regular expressions

By (a), what I mean is sometimes a regular expression is common, but not in that distro. For example, I was told to write something to make sure an address was valid. So, I simply made sure that the string had a number and a letter in it... and it did get a little bit of filtering done. Is there a better solution? Aren't many people having to validate addresses? How are you doing it? Also, I am not sure how open Abigail-II is to new additions to the module and I am not sure if I should use rt.cpan.org or email him. He is certainly very present here, so I could msg him. But also by (a) what I mean is that Abigail and Damian are both non-American, and so their profanity regular expressions were way off the mark. I had never even heard of some of the terms they thought were bad and others are completely normal in American context (e.g, "bl**dy"). So I coded Regexp::US::Profanity to do filtering with

Regarding (b), the regexp to count the number of a certain character in a string is very simple, and the task to count is also simple, but neither was readily available in the distro. And again, I was afraid to contact the author about it, so I just whipped up some lines of code to do it

Carter's compass: I know I'm on the right track when by deleting something, I'm adding functionality.

In reply to Re: Re: Dependencies, or, How Common is Regexp::Common? by princepawn
in thread Dependencies, or, How Common is Regexp::Common? by legLess

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