Regexp::Ignore Copyright (c) 2002 Ockham Technology N.V. & Rani Pinchuk. All rights reserved. This package is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. *** THIS IS AN ALPHA CODE *** *** THIS IS AN ALPHA CODE *** *** THIS IS AN ALPHA CODE *** You have been warned. See also the author notes below. DESCRIPTION Markup languages, like HTML, are difficult to parse. The reason is that you can have a line like: Hello World How can we find the string "Hello World", in the above line, and replace it by "Hello Universe" (which is a lot deeper)? Or how can we run a speller on the text and replace the mistakes with suggestions for the correct spelling? This module come to help you doing exactly that. Actually the module let you first split the text to the parts you are interested in and the unwanted parts. For example, all the HTML tags can be taken as unwanted parts. Then it let you parse the part you are interested in (while totally ignoring the unwanted parts). In the end it let you merge back the unwanted parts with the possibly changed parts you were interested in. INSTALLATION Follow the standard installation procedure for Perl modules, which is to type the following commands: perl Makefile.PL make make test make install You'll probably need to do the last as root. AUTHOR NOTES This is an alpha code. Really. It was written in the end of 2001. It is not yet checked much. The only reason I submit it to CPAN that early is to get feedback about the idea, and hopefully to get some help in finding the many bugs that must still be in it. In our company we use this code, though, and for _our_ needs it runs well. Rani Pinchuk rani@cpan.org