in reply to Re^3: heuristic to detect (perl) code
in thread heuristic to detect (perl) code

I just need a fuzzy heuristic "looks like code" with more than 80% reliability.

(EDIT: Please keep in mind that posted code is not necessarily valid code)

> OTOH :) Re^2: CSS Show and Tell: Colored Code

Thanks looking into code-mirror might help.

OTOH I tried Free Nodelet hack: Syntax colouring some time ago and had to deactivate it because of the caused overhead.

So the most highest detection rate per necessary code lines is my goal.

Cheers Rolf

UPDATE:

> PPI is fairly straightforward, s/// is easily converted to .replace, the regex are the simple variety, it is possible

I suppose this was already done within perlito