Re: Test regex compile

in reply to Test regex compile

Let's re-phrase the question to: Is there a way that I can test prior to running a progrgam whether or not a regular expression will compile.

The answer is Yes, use the -c flag when invoking perl. You can use: Perl -c myprogram, or you might make the program read in the regex from an external file ... possibly specifying which file on the command line. Then you only have to test the regex file: Perl -c regexfile.

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Re: Re: Test regex compile by flyingmoose (Priest) on May 13, 2004 at 19:28 UTC
That doesn't work if the regex is passed in as a parameter, say if you are doing something screwy like loading it from a database. The way to do that is probably to check at startup, or otherwise write another program, to run eval-block type tests on each of the many regexes that can be imported.	[reply]

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