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# Line 13  for perltest as well as for pcretest, an Line 13  for perltest as well as for pcretest, an
13  as /A that pcretest recognizes are not used in these files. The output should  as /A that pcretest recognizes are not used in these files. The output should
14  be identical, apart from the initial identifying banner.  be identical, apart from the initial identifying banner.
15    
16    For testing UTF-8 features, an alternative form of perltest, called perltest8,
17    is supplied. This requires Perl 5.6 or higher. It recognizes the special
18    modifier /8 that pcretest uses to invoke UTF-8 functionality. The testinput5
19    file can be fed to perltest8.
20    
21  The testinput2 and testinput4 files are not suitable for feeding to perltest,  The testinput2 and testinput4 files are not suitable for feeding to perltest,
22  since they do make use of the special upper case modifiers and escapes that  since they do make use of the special upper case modifiers and escapes that
23  pcretest uses to test some features of PCRE. The first of these files also  pcretest uses to test some features of PCRE. The first of these files also
24  contains malformed regular expressions, in order to check that PCRE diagnoses  contains malformed regular expressions, in order to check that PCRE diagnoses
25  them correctly.  them correctly. Similarly, testinput6 tests UTF-8 features that do not relate
26    to Perl.
27    
28  Philip Hazel <ph10@cam.ac.uk>  Philip Hazel <ph10@cam.ac.uk>
29  January 2000  August 2000
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