On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 07:12:36PM +0200, Andreas J. Koenig ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> >>>>> On Fri, 25 May 2001 13:21:43 +0200, "Perl Authors Upload Server"
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>
> > rationale:
>
> > I think this follows the standard for tied objects.
> >
> > Tie - indicates it's a tied object Hash - indicates the object is
> > tied to a hash Regex - is a short description of what the module
> > does
>
> Maybe the sun is drying my brains out, but I cannot imagine anything
> from this description. Please retry and suppose the reader is dumb but
> you must convince him nonetheless.--Thank you!
Yeah. sorry about that. The email came thru the PAUSE interface to the
modules list and it wasn't clear to me exactly what was required. Hope this
makes a bit more sense:
The module allows the user to match hash keys using regular expressions.
This means that if you have a hash containing the value $h{key}, then
looking up $h{'^k'} will return that value to you.
There's already another module on CPAN called Tie::RegexpHash, but that
works 'in reverse', that is, you _set_ hash values using regexes as keys.
As for the name of the module, I think it follows the standard for naming
tied objects:
Tie:: indicates that it is a tied object
Hash:: indicates that you tied the object to a hash
Regex:: tries to indicate that the tied hashes can be accessed using regexes.
Hope that is clearer.
Let me know if you need any more info.
Dave...
