Make maint/RunPerlTest public

maint/README

@@ -173,7 +173,8 @@ new release.
   the PCRE2 test output, apart from the version identification at the start of
   each test. Sometimes there are other differences in test 4 if PCRE2 and Perl
   are using different Unicode releases. The other tests are not Perl-compatible
-  (they use various PCRE2-specific features or options).
+  (they use various PCRE2-specific features or options). The maint/RunPerlTest 
+  shell script can be used to do this testing in Unix-like environment.
 
 . It is possible to test with the emulated memmove() function by undefining
   HAVE_MEMMOVE and HAVE_BCOPY in config.h, though I do not do this often.
@@ -452,4 +453,4 @@ years.
 Philip Hazel
 Email local part: Philip.Hazel
 Email domain: gmail.com
-Last updated: 25 June 2024
+Last updated: 22 August 2024

maint/RunPerlTest

@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+#! /bin/sh
+
+# Script to run the Perl-compatible PCRE2 tests through Perl. The argument can
+# be "1" or "4" to run just a single test. Otherwise it runs both. This script
+# should be run with the main PCRE2 directory current.
+
+if [ "$1" != "4" ]; then
+echo "-----------------------------------------------------------------"
+echo "Perl test: main functionality (PCRE2 test 1)"
+./perltest.sh testdata/testinput1 testtry
+if [ $? = 0 ] ; then
+  tail -n +3 testtry > testtry3
+  diff -u testdata/testoutput1 testtry3
+  /bin/rm -rf testtry3
+fi
+echo ""
+fi
+
+if [ "$1" != "1" ]; then
+echo "-----------------------------------------------------------------"
+echo "Perl test: UTF-8 and Unicode property features (PCRE2 test 4)"
+./perltest.sh -utf8 testdata/testinput4 testtry
+if [ $? = 0 ] ; then
+  tail -n +3 testtry > testtry3
+  diff -u testdata/testoutput4 testtry3
+  /bin/rm -rf testtry3
+fi
+echo ""
+fi
+
+# End