match::smart - clone of smartmatch operator
use v5.10; use match::smart; if ($this |M| $that) { say "$this matches $that"; }
match::smart provides a match operator |M| that acts like more or less identically to the (as of Perl 5.18) deprecated smart match operator.
|M|
If you don't like the crazy Sub::Infix operator, you can alternatively export a more normal function:
use v5.10; use match::smart qw(match); if (match($this, $that)) { say "$this matches $that"; }
There were major changes to smart match between 5.10.0 and 5.10.1. This module attempts to emulate the behaviour of the operator in more recent versions of Perl. In particular, 5.18.0 (minus the warnings). Divergences not noted below should be considered bugs.
While the real smart match operator implicitly takes references to operands that are hashes or arrays, match::smart's operator does not.
@foo ~~ %bar # means: \@foo ~~ \%bar @foo |M| %bar # means: scalar(@foo) |M| scalar(%bar)
If you want the \@foo ~~ \%bar behaviour, you need to add the backslashes yourself:
\@foo ~~ \%bar
\@foo |M| \%bar
Similarly:
"foo" ~~ /foo/ # works "foo" |M| /foo/ # no worky! "foo" |M| qr/foo/ # do this instead
match::smart treats the MATCH method on blessed objects (if it exists) like an overloaded ~~. This is for compatibility with match::simple, and for compatibility with versions of Perl that don't have documented support for overloading ~~.
MATCH
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Please report any bugs to https://github.com/tobyink/p5-match-simple/issues.
match::simple.
This module uses Exporter::Tiny.
Toby Inkster <tobyink@cpan.org>.
This software is copyright (c) 2013-2014, 2017, 2022-2023 by Toby Inkster.
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To install match::simple, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm match::simple
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install match::simple
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.