Interesting little regex

[Josh Coates]

> very simplified, but the basic point is there.  Make things 
> readable, comment, etc....

there you go again jayce, helping to make perl an actual useful language for
software engineering instead of a language for obfuscated code tricks...
;-)

-josh


> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-bounces at plug.org [mailto:plug-bounces at plug.org] On 
> Behalf Of Jayce^
> Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2006 11:19 AM
> To: Provo Linux Users Group Mailing List
> Subject: Re: Interesting little regex
> 
> Charles Curley wrote:
> >> You've got the x flag, please use it!
> > 
> > You mean this regex is x rated?
> 
> hehe...
> actually though, for any who don't know:
> In perl regex, there are flags at the end (to be fixed, perl6 
> has them rightly in the front) that modify your engine.  One 
> of these is the underutilized x modifier.  When added, it 
> makes whitespace insignificant in your regex, so you can 
> nicely tab/space/newline in order to actually be readable...  
> Oh, and you can/should add comments also. so:
> 
> s/(foo|bar)//;
> 
> can be
> s/
>      (		# either
>          foo
>        |		# or...
>          bar
>      )
>   //x;
> 
> 
> very simplified, but the basic point is there.  Make things 
> readable, comment, etc....
> 
> --
> Jayce^
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