/usr/bin/perl -w
#
# roman - generate a regular expression that matches the roman numerals
# from 1 to 20.
#
# you can over-ride the upper bound (20) by specifying the value
# on the command line. You can also specify an indent value to
# pretty-print the resulting regexp.
#
# Copyright (C) David Landgren 2005

use strict;
use Regexp::Assemble;

my $max    = shift || 20;
my $indent = shift || 0;

eval "use Math::Roman 'roman'";
$@ and die "You must install Math::Roman to run this example\n";

my $r = Regexp::Assemble->new;
$r->add(roman($_)) for 1..$max;

print $r->as_string( indent => $indent ), "\n";