Regexp::MinLength - Perl extension for determining the minimum matching length for a regular expression

  use Regexp::MinLength qw(MinLength);
  my $min = MinLength($regex);

This module determines the minimum matching length for a regular expression.

Returns the minimum matching length, that is, the length of the shortest string that will match the given regular expression.

my $regex = "\\d"; my $min = MinLength($regex);

See Regexp::Parser

Leigh Metcalf, <leigh@fprime.net<gt>

Copyright (C) 2008 by Leigh Metcalf

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.8 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.