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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Change case of single character in pattern Post 302408845 by uiop44 on Tuesday 30th of March 2010 04:16:45 PM
Old 03-30-2010
Thanks pludi.

I had used a series of sed's to split the pattern off from the string by spaces, manipulate it and then reassemble the string (delete the spaces). Not very elegant but it worked.

Perhaps this is an actual example of the potential advantages of Perl's brand of RE?
 

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test::bdd::cucumber::model::line

Test::BDD::Cucumber::Model::Line(3pm)			User Contributed Perl Documentation		     Test::BDD::Cucumber::Model::Line(3pm)

NAME

       Test::BDD::Cucumber::Model::Line - Model to represent a line in a feature file

VERSION

       version 0.11

DESCRIPTION

       Model to represent a line in a feature file

ATTRIBUTES

   number
       The line number this line represents

   document
       The Test::BDD::Cucumber::Model::Document object this line belongs to.

   raw_content
       The content of the line, unmodified

METHODS

   indent
       Returns the number of preceding spaces before content on a line

   content
       Returns the line's content, with the indentation stripped

   content_remove_indentation
       Accepts an int of number of spaces, and returns the content with exactly that many preceding spaces removed.

   debug_summary
       Returns a string with the filename and line number

   filename
       Returns either the filename, or the string "[String]" if the document was loaded from a string

   is_blank
   is_comment
       Return true if the line is either blank, or is a comment.

AUTHOR

       Peter Sergeant "pete@clueball.com"

LICENSE

       Copyright 2011, Peter Sergeant; Licensed under the same terms as Perl

perl v5.14.2							    2012-05-20				     Test::BDD::Cucumber::Model::Line(3pm)
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