NAME Regexp::CharClasses::Helper - User defined character class strings by unicode name or literals SYNOPSIS use Regexp::CharClasses::Helper; sub IsAorPlus { return Regexp::CharClasses::Helper::fmt( 'A', 'LATIN SMALL LETTER A' '+', ); } say 'matches' if 'A+' =~ /^\p{IsAorPlus}+$/; sub InCapitalsButNot42 { return Regexp::CharClasses::Helper::fmt( "+A\tZ", # from A till Z "-\x42" # except \x42 ); } say "doesn't" if 'ABC' =~ /\p{InCapitalsButNot42}+/; METHODS AND ARGUMENTS fmt() Takes in a list and turns it into the format specified by User-Defined Character Properties <http://perldoc.perl.org/perlunicode.html#User-Defined-Character-Properties> GIT REPOSITORY http://github.com/athreef/Regexp-CharClasses-Helper SEE ALSO Regexp::CharClasses for a collection of user supplied character classes. Sub::CharacterProperties generates the subs themselves, but isn't usable at compile time. User-Defined Character Properties <http://perldoc.perl.org/perlunicode.html#User-Defined-Character-Properties> perldoc. AUTHOR Ahmad Fatoum <athreef@cpan.org>, http://a3f.at COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE Copyright (C) 2016 Ahmad Fatoum This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.