On Mon, 19 Jan 2015 15:57:35 +0000 Andrew Solomon <and...@geekuni.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 2:50 PM, Mike Martin <m...@redtux.org.uk> > wrote: > > The lookup hash is like this > > %clean=( > > Heating Engineer => (?:Heating.*?Engineer)\b.*? > > HGV > > Driver=>(?=\A(?:(?!tech|mech).)*$)(?:HGV|LGV|Class.?1|Class.?2).?(?:1|2|3|)(?:.+Driver|).*? > > > > HGV Mechanic=> > > (?:(?:HGV|LGV|Lorry).+(?:Mech?anics?|technicians?))\b.*? Highway > > Engineer=> (?:(?:Highway.?) (?:Engineer.?))\b.*? Highway Technician > > => (?:Highway.?) (?:Technician.?)\b.*? ) > > Please tell me that this is _not_ in a text file. The idea of placing configuration options in a file was for compiled programs. Since the end user may not have the source, being able to change the configurations via a text file is a good method. But since this has regular expressions, it can only be changed by a programmer, which means, it should be in a Perl module. -- Don't stop where the ink does. Shawn -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/