Pattern Matching
See:
Pattern Matching Task
.
References
1996
(
Wall & al, 1996
) =>
Larry Wall
, Tom Christiansen, and Randal L. Schwartz. (1996). "
Programming Perl, 2nd edition.
" O'Reilly.
ISBN 1565921496
(
alternate
,
search
)
pattern matching
: Taking a pattern, expressed as a regular expression, and trying the pattern various ways on a string to see if there's any way to make it fit. Often used to pick interesting tidbits out of a file.