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



NAME
       Regexp::Common::URI::wais -- Returns a pattern for WAIS URIs.

SYNOPSIS
           use Regexp::Common qw /URI/;

           while (<>) {
               /$RE{URI}{WAIS}/       and  print "Contains a WAIS URI.\n";
           }

DESCRIPTION
       $RE{URI}{WAIS}

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

           "wais:" "//" host [ ":" port ] "/" database
                             [ ( "?" search ) | ( "/" wtype "/" wpath ) ]

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

       $1  The complete URI.

       $2  The scheme.

       $3  The hostname.

       $4  The port, if given.

       $5  The database, followed by search or wtype/wpath, if given.

       $6  The database.

       $7  The part following the database if given, including the question mark or slash.

       $8  The search part, if given.

       $9  The wtype, if given.

       $10 The wpath, if given.

REFERENCES
       [RFC 1738]
           Berners-Lee, Tim, Masinter, L., McCahill, M.: Uniform Resource Locators (URL). December 1994.

HISTORY
        $Log: wais.pm,v $
        Revision 2.100  2003/03/12 22:23:14  abigail
        Forced 2.100 revision

        Revision 2.1  2003/03/12 22:22:21  abigail
        WAIS 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::wais(3)