CharClass — A Perl Regular Expression Character Class Library

What's new?

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2008-11-24 A new module for fullwidth/halfwidth character normalization is added.
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Modules

Modules defining character classes:

Char::Class::Alphabet: Character classes for alphabetical letters.
Char::Class::Han: Han character (CJK ideograph) classes.
Char::Class::Hiragana: Hiragana classes.
Char::Class::JaInput: Character classes defined in JIS input method standards.
Char::Class::ISOIECTR10176: ISO/IEC TR 10176 character repertoires.
Char::Class::JISX0221: JIS X 0221 character collections.
Char::Class::JISX4051: JIS X 4051 character classes.
Char::Class::JISX4052: JIS X 4052 character classes.
Char::Class::Katakana: Katakana classes.
Char::Class::Kana: Kana (hiragana, katakana, and additions) classes.
Char::Class::RFC1815: RFC 1815 character sets.
Char::Class::UCS: UCS (ISO/IEC 10646) character collections.
Char::Class::XML: XML-related character classes such as InXML_NameStartChar10 (XML 1.0 name start characters) and InXMLNameChar (XML 1.1 name characters).

A module for normalization:

Char::Normalize::FullwidthHalfwidth (New in 2.0): Normalization of ideographic space, fullwidth alphanumeric characters, and halfwidth Kakatana.

Install

Download the tarball and extract it.
perl Makefile.PL
make
make install

Alternatively, just putting all files in the directory lib into your directory for Perl modules should work as well. All Perl modules in this package are written in pure Perl.

Example

use Char::Class::XML qw/InXML_NameStartChar10 InXMLNameChar10/;

if ($name !~ /\A\p{InXML_NameStartChar10}\p{InXMLNameChar10}*\z/) {
  die "$0: $name: This is not an XML 1.0 Name";
}

Distribution

The development version is available in the CVS repository.

TODO

Some classes are no longer up-to-date. Need to update.
Need to improve documentation.

License

This library and the library generated by it is free software; you can redistribute them and/or modify them under the same terms as Perl itself.