One lamented aspect of Perl is that regexes get really hard to read. ....
If you learn to regex, they're really easy to read :)
why not use a sigil ...
Because its not on the standard keyboard!
Also, its a delimiter not a sigil
Which is why I prefer to use @ for quoting like s@@@ </sarcasm>
But seriously, this is exactly why i prefer \ or «
$ perl -MO=Deparse -e " s\\\g "
s///g;
-e syntax OK
$ perl -MO=Deparse -e " s«««g "
s///g;
-e syntax OK
or even
</sarcasm>
But seriously, between balanced delimiters like
perl -MO=Deparse -e " s {}//g "
perl -MO=Deparse -e " s {}\\g "
perl -MO=Deparse -e " s {}vvg "
perl -MO=Deparse -e " s {}()g "
perl -MO=Deparse -e " s {}[]g "
perl -MO=Deparse -e " s {}<>g "
perl -MO=Deparse -e " s<><>g "
I stick to keyboard characters
s///x
s===x
s,,,x
s!!!x
s~~~x
s>>>x
s}}}x
and the special case s'''x
The x means magic
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