Regexp::Common::URI::news -- Returns a pattern for file URIs. use Regexp::Common qw /URI/; while (<>) { /$RE{URI}{news}/ and print "Contains a news URI.\n"; }

$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: The complete URI. The scheme. 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: The complete URI. The scheme. The part of the URI following "nntp://". The host and port, separated by a colon. If no port was given, just the host. The host. The port, if given. The group. The digits, if given. Berners-Lee, Tim, Masinter, L., McCahill, M.: Uniform Resource Locators (URL). December 1994. $Log: news.pm,v $ Revision 2.100 2003/02/11 14:11:29 abigail NNTP and news URIs Regexp::Common::URI for other supported URIs. Damian Conway (damian@conway.org) This package is maintained by Abigail (regexp-common@abigail.nl). Bound to be plenty. 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)