Encode...TeX::RE(3pm)

💖 Encode::Arabic::ArabTeX::RE — the manual, but make it make sense 💖

okay bestie, so this is Encode::Arabic::ArabTeX::RE, and the whole vibe is: it's the deprecated version of Encode::Arabic::ArabTeX, and it does its thing with regular expressions. gone but iconic 🫶

This page lives in the User Contributed Perl Documentation corner of the 3pm manuals. 💅

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

like, the literal whole API, bestie, it's two lines:

use Encode::Arabic::ArabTeX::RE;

$string = decode 'arabtex-re', $octets;
$octets = encode 'arabtex-re', $string;

that's it. that's the girl. 🎀

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so this is the deprecated method, and the way it works is by doing sequential regular-expression substitutions. it's giving "old reliable but make it regex" 😭

real talk though, let's be honest about the tradeoffs:

• it's limited in scope compared to the ArabTeX notation as a whole — it doesn't cover everything
• it's non-efficient in data processing — not fast, not cute for big jobs
• BUT the one thing it does have going for it: it does not require the Encode::Mapper module ✨

so if you can't or won't pull in Encode::Mapper, this is your girl. 🦋

🧚 EXPORTS & MODES 🧚

it exports everything as if use Encode also appeared in the package — same energy, same exports, no extra steps. 💜

as for conversion modes? there's support, but it's experimental and incomplete. like, it's trying its best, okay?? 🙈

go read Encode::Arabic::ArabTeX for the real deal on modes, iykyk.

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👀 SEE ALSO 👀

• Encode::Arabic::ArabTeX — the non-deprecated main character 👑

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💫 AUTHOR 💫

Otakar Smrz <otakar-smrz users.sf.net>, and their page is at <http://otakar-smrz.users.sf.net/> — periodt. 🌈

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📜 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE 📜

Copyright (C) 2003-2016 Otakar Smrz

the tea: this library is free software 🫶 you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. no cap.

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okay that's the whole page, bestie, you ate it 💅✨ this was documented as perl v5.36.0 on 2022-10-16, and the page is filed as Encode...TeX::RE(3pm) — mwah, go forth and decode 🎀💖