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NAME

6       Regexp::Common::URI::news -- Returns a pattern for file URIs.
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SYNOPSIS

9           use Regexp::Common qw /URI/;
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11           while (<>) {
12               /$RE{URI}{news}/       and  print "Contains a news URI.\n";
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DESCRIPTION

16       $RE{URI}{news}
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18       Returns a pattern that matches news URIs, as defined by RFC 1738.  News
19       URIs have the form:
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21           "news:" ( "*" ⎪ group ⎪ article "@" host )
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23       Under "{-keep}", the following are returned:
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25       $1  The complete URI.
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31       $RE{URI}{NNTP}
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33       Returns a pattern that matches NNTP URIs, as defined by RFC 1738.  NNTP
34       URIs have the form:
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36           "nntp://" host [ ":" port ] "/" group [ "/" digits ]
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38       Under "{-keep}", the following are returned:
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44       $3  The part of the URI following "nntp://".
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46       $4  The host and port, separated by a colon. If no port was given, just
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51       $6  The port, if given.
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REFERENCES

58       [RFC 1738]
59           Berners-Lee, Tim, Masinter, L., McCahill, M.: Uniform Resource
60           Locators (URL). December 1994.
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HISTORY

63        $Log: news.pm,v $
64        Revision 2.100  2003/02/11 14:11:29  abigail
65        NNTP and news URIs
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SEE ALSO

68       Regexp::Common::URI for other supported URIs.
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AUTHOR

71       Damian Conway (damian@conway.org)
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MAINTAINANCE

74       This package is maintained by Abigail (regexp-common@abigail.nl).
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BUGS AND IRRITATIONS

77       Bound to be plenty.
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80            Copyright (c) 2001 - 2003, Damian Conway. All Rights Reserved.
81              This module is free software. It may be used, redistributed
82             and/or modified under the terms of the Perl Artistic License
83                   (see http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html)
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