| Perl::Critic::Policy::RegularExpressions::ProhibitUnusualDelimiters(3pm) | User Contributed Perl Documentation | Perl::Critic::Policy::RegularExpressions::ProhibitUnusualDelimiters(3pm) |
Perl::Critic::Policy::RegularExpressions::ProhibitUnusualDelimiters - Use only "//" or "{}" to delimit regexps.
This Policy is part of the core Perl::Critic distribution.
Perl lets you delimit regular expressions with almost any character, but most choices are illegible. Compare these equivalent expressions:
s/foo/bar/; # good
s{foo}{bar}; # good
s#foo#bar#; # bad
s;foo;bar;; # worse
s|\|\||\||; # eye-gouging bad
There is one option for this policy, "allow_all_brackets". If this is true, then, in addition to allowing "//" and "{}", the other matched pairs of "()", "[]", and "<>" are allowed.
Initial development of this policy was supported by a grant from the Perl Foundation.
Chris Dolan <cdolan@cpan.org>
Copyright (c) 2007-2011 Chris Dolan. Many rights reserved.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. The full text of this license can be found in the LICENSE file included with this module
| 2020-05-17 | perl v5.30.0 |