On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, Ben Bennett wrote: > On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 06:53:10PM +1000, Iain Truskett wrote: > > * Joshua Hoblitt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [25 Jun 2003 17:59]: > > > > > But what if I use /(-?\d\d\d\d)/ as the regex and set the > > > length => [ qw( 4 5 ) ]? :) > > > > cvs update > > > > Your wish is my small patch. > > While you are fiddling with the lengths... > > Ok. One of the reasons that I am not using Builder is for the length > greater than N cases... > > For example ISO8601 has fractional formats, e.g.: > HH:MM:SS.ssss...
You don't have to match by length. My current first release of ISO code handles the fractional formats. Although it's using a , as the separator. It isn't clear to me if ISO means ( just . or , and . as separators). > I want to be able to say this is a valid match if the length is 10 or > more characters. Thats what regex is for. > Of course the other reason that I am not using Builder at the moment > is that I allow the user to specify the types of formats that they > want to consider and making that work in the Builder framework seemed > to be more trouble than it was worth. The dispatch mechanism should allow this. -J --
