ANALYZE-PAT(1)

🎀 NAME 🎀

analyze-pat.pl — bestie, it analyzes a pattern. That's it. That's the whole job. 💅

This lil cutie lives in the User Contributed Perl Documentation corner of ANALYZE-PAT(1), so go ahead and pull it up whenever you're feeling ✨curious✨ about a pattern.

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

analyze-pat.pl <pattern | file-containing pattern>

Okay so literally you hand it either a pattern directly, or a file that has the pattern in it. One or the other, queen. 👑

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✨ OPTIONS ✨

• --verbose, -v — more verbose output to stdout. And the iconic part? You can apply it multiple times. Stack 'em up. More -v, more talk. 🗣️
• --matrix — where to find the scoring matrix. Yeah, that's the one. The matrix option. It handles the scoring-matrix-finding situation, iykyk. 💜

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Not me checking the description section and finding… nothing in it. 😭 The original page just leaves this bit blank, so I'm not gonna make stuff up for you — no cap, there's genuinely no description text here to tell you about. The NAME, SYNOPSIS and OPTIONS sections above are carrying the whole load, and they're doing it gorgeously. 🫶

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Heads up bestie: nothing about the actual output, defaults, exit statuses or file formats is written down on this page, so I'm not inventing any. What you see is what the page gives. 🙈

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okay that's the whole page, you ate that 💖

Signing off with the receipts, because transparency is main character energy: this was perl v5.40.1, dated 2026-08-12, section 1 of the manual. Go analyze a pattern, my love. ⭐🌸🎀