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what exactly does this regex?

I don't know, what happened when you tried to run it? What input do you want to run it on? How do I post a question effectively? Without sample data, I could tell you what the punctuation means, but so can perlre.

If I had to guess, though, I'd wager it's someone's attempt at reinventing Pod::Parser / Pod::Simple.

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Re^2: regex help!
by anek77713 (Acolyte) on Jul 12, 2013 at 09:58 UTC
    this piece of code is from this repository: https://github.com/timurn/modern_perl_book/tree/master/build/tools in build_chapters.pl
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      Well, then, -- for posting code licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license without attribution, and apologies for a most unbeknownst-to-me implication that the author (whose work I know and respect) would float out poorly designed code. In the context of the original source file, it makes much more sense.

      http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/

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