Regexp::Common::URI::news(3p)

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)