in reply to Capturing all instances of a repeating sub-pattern in regex

This question strikes me as an example of just because TMTOWDI doesn't mean you should choose the most complex.

Choosing a less ambitious way of doing it will result in more maintainable Perl and I doubt it will harm your program in terms of performance too much.

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