Text::Query::SolveSimpleString(3)

NAME
Text::Query::SolveSimpleString - Apply query expression on strings

SYNOPSIS
  use Text::Query;
  my $q=new Text::Query('+hello +world',
                        -parse => 'Text::Query::ParseSimple',
                        -solve => 'Text::Query::SolveSimpleString',
                        -build => 'Text::Query::BuildSimpleString');
  $q->match('this hello is a world')

DESCRIPTION
Applies an expression built by `Text::Query::BuildSimpleString' to a list of strings.

METHODS
If `TARGET' is a scalar, `match' returns a true value if the string specified by `TARGET' matches the query object's query expression. If `TARGET' is not given, the match is made against `$_'.

If `TARGET' is an array, `match' returns a (possibly empty) list of all matching elements. If the elements of the array are references to sub- arrays, the match is done against the first element of each sub-array. This allows arbitrary information (e.g. filenames) to be associated with each string to match.

If `TARGET' is a reference to an array, `match' returns a reference to a (possibly empty) list of all matching elements. Behaves just like `MATCH' when `TARGET' is a scalar or is not given. Slightly faster than `MATCH' under these circumstances.

AUTHORS
Eric Bohlman (ebohlman@netcom.com)

Loic Dachary (loic@senga.org)