SYNOPSIS

use Regexp::Common qw /URI/;
while (<>) {
/$RE{URI}{news}/ and print "Contains a news URI.\n";
}

DESCRIPTION

$RE{URI}{news}

Returns a pattern that matches news URIs, as defined by RFC 1738. News URIs have the form:

    "news:" ( "*" | group | article "@" host )

Under "{-keep}", the following are returned:

$1

The complete URI.

$2

The scheme.

$3

The part of the URI following ``news://''.

$RE{URI}{NNTP}

Returns a pattern that matches NNTP URIs, as defined by RFC 1738. NNTP URIs have the form:

    "nntp://" host [ ":" port ] "/" group [ "/" digits ]

Under "{-keep}", the following are returned:

$1

The complete URI.

$2

The scheme.

$3

The part of the URI following ``nntp://''.

$4

The host and port, separated by a colon. If no port was given, just the host.

$5

The host.

$6

The port, if given.

$7

The group.

$8

The digits, if given.

REFERENCES

[RFC 1738]

Berners-Lee, Tim, Masinter, L., McCahill, M.: Uniform Resource Locators (URL). December 1994.

AUTHOR

Damian Conway ([email protected])

MAINTENANCE

This package is maintained by Abigail ([email protected]).

LICENSE and COPYRIGHT

This software is Copyright (c) 2001 - 2016, Damian Conway and Abigail.

This module is free software, and maybe used under any of the following licenses:

 1) The Perl Artistic License.     See the file COPYRIGHT.AL.
 2) The Perl Artistic License 2.0. See the file COPYRIGHT.AL2.
 3) The BSD License.               See the file COPYRIGHT.BSD.
 4) The MIT License.               See the file COPYRIGHT.MIT.