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| Hi. Is there a way to continue very long reg. ex. lines on mutliple lines?
I tried using a backslash at the end of line which works in other languages,
but Perl seemed to treat the escaped newline as part of the expression. I
have some very complex reg. ex. that span many columns that I would like to
break up across multiple lines for readability. Is there a way to do this?
Thanks,
DrX
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| Gunnar Hjalmarsson 2004-10-28, 3:59 pm |
| Xenos wrote:
> Hi. Is there a way to continue very long reg. ex. lines on mutliple
> lines? I tried using a backslash at the end of line which works in
> other languages, but Perl seemed to treat the escaped newline as part
> of the expression. I have some very complex reg. ex. that span many
> columns that I would like to break up across multiple lines for
> readability. Is there a way to do this?
That's what the /x modifier is for.
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Gunnar Hjalmarsson
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