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Regexp::Common::URI::news(3)         User Contributed Perl Documentation        Regexp::Common::URI::news(3)



NAME
       Regexp::Common::URI::news -- Returns a pattern for file URIs.

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.

HISTORY
        $Log: news.pm,v $
        Revision 2.100  2003/02/11 14:11:29  abigail
        NNTP and news URIs

SEE ALSO
       Regexp::Common::URI for other supported URIs.

AUTHOR
       Damian Conway (damian@conway.org)

MAINTAINANCE
       This package is maintained by Abigail (regexp-common@abigail.nl).

BUGS AND IRRITATIONS
       Bound to be plenty.

COPYRIGHT
            Copyright (c) 2001 - 2003, Damian Conway. All Rights Reserved.
              This module is free software. It may be used, redistributed
             and/or modified under the terms of the Perl Artistic License
                   (see http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html)



perl v5.8.8                                      2003-03-23                     Regexp::Common::URI::news(3)