comment inside perl regular expression

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Re: comment inside perl regular expression by moritz (Cardinal) on Mar 13, 2009 at 12:50 UTC
With the /x modifier: `my $re = qr{ "[^"]*" # first quoted string = URL ... # more stuff }x` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: comment inside perl regular expression by JavaFan (Canon) on Mar 13, 2009 at 12:59 UTC
Or by doing something really wacky: `/(?:(*FAIL)\QThis is a comment\E)?PATTERN/` [download] Not something I recommend doing though.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: comment inside perl regular expression by moritz (Cardinal) on Mar 13, 2009 at 13:01 UTC
If you want inline comments, you can use `(?# comment )` instead, which is less wacky, but I still think that it's no great thing in terms of readability.	[reply] [d/l]
Re: comment inside perl regular expression by toolic (Bishop) on Mar 13, 2009 at 13:13 UTC
Search The Fine Web: Embedding comments and modifiers in a regular expression	[reply]
Re: comment inside perl regular expression by VinsWorldcom (Prior) on Mar 13, 2009 at 14:07 UTC
Regex are tough enough to read without inserting comments into them. What's wrong with putting a detailed comment block above the regex explaining what/how it does what it does? That's what I do so when I inevitably go back to modify it at a later date, I don't have to 'learn' regex all over again.	[reply]
Re^2: comment inside perl regular expression by Anonymous Monk on Mar 14, 2009 at 11:21 UTC
Compare these 3 Read more... (2 kB) I think the 1st one is the easiest	[reply] [d/l]
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