freebsd-ports/devel/p5-Tie-Hash-Regex/pkg-descr
Dmitry Marakasov 1d1f878054 - Fix trailing whitespace in pkg-descrs, categories [a-f]*
Approved by:	portmgr blanket
2016-05-19 10:21:23 +00:00

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Someone asked on Perlmonks if a hash could do fuzzy matches on keys - this
is the result.
If there's no exact match on the key that you pass to the hash, then the
key is treated as a regex and the first matching key is returned. You can
force it to leap straight into the regex checking by passing a qr'ed regex
into the hash like this:
my $val = $h{qr/key/};
exists and delete also do regex matching. In the case of delete all values
matching your regex key will be deleted from the hash.
WWW: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Tie-Hash-Regex/