Catman...::Regex(3pm)

✨ NAME ✨

Catmandu::Util::Regex — regex-related utility functions 🎀 straight out of the Catman...::Regex(3pm) page in the User Contributed Perl Documentation. Bestie, it's giving "tiny module, big helper energy" and we're obsessed. 💅

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🌸 FUNCTIONS 🌸

🦋 as_regex($str)

Escapes and quotes the string you hand it, so it comes back out as a regex. That's it, that's the whole job, and it does it flawlessly. ✨

💜 substituter($search, $replace)

Builds you a function that performs a regex substitution. You give it the search pattern and the replace string, and it hands back a little closure that does the substituting whenever you call it. Main character behavior, honestly. 👑

Check it out:

my $ltrimmer = substituter('^[\h\v]+', '');
$ltrimmer->("        eek! ");
# => "eek! "

So like, $ltrimmer is a thing now, and you just call $ltrimmer->(...) on a string and the leading horizontal/vertical whitespace gets yeeted into the void. " eek! " walks in, "eek! " walks out. No cap, it just works. 🌈

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okay that's the whole page, bestie, you ate it 🫶 this was perl v5.40.1, dated 2026-01-24, and yes we're still calling the whole thing Catman...::Regex(3pm) 💖 bye, go write some regex 💀✨