long lines

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

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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