Re: Simple way to skip spaces and # comments

Treat "#" and the following characters as a single whitespace character.

/\G (?: \s | \# .* )++ /xgc
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More efficient?

/\G (?: \s++ | \# .*+ )++ /xgc
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Re^2: Simple way to skip spaces and # comments by leszekdubiel (Scribe) on Jul 31, 2020 at 14:36 UTC
`/\G (?: \s++ \| \# .+ )++ /xgc` ^^^^ This makes error about recursion limit... # for f in `seq 40123`; do echo " #alfa beta"; done \| perl -e 'use str +ict; use warnings; undef $/; my $s = <STDIN>; print length $s, "\n"; +$s =~ /\G (?: \s++ \| \# .+ )++ /xgc; print pos $s, "\n"; ' 481476 Complex regular subexpression recursion limit (32766) exceeded at -e l +ine 1, <STDIN> chunk 1. 196597 [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: Simple way to skip spaces and # comments by ikegami (Patriarch) on Jul 31, 2020 at 14:42 UTC
If certain things are expected to match more than 32766 times, you need to break it down. So if the following exceeds the limit, `a+` [download] you have to use `(?:a{1,32766})+` [download] So, `/\G (?: \s++ \| \# .+ )++ /xgc` [download] becomes `/\G (?: (?: \s++ \| \# .+ ){1,32766}+ )+ /xgc` [download] Or maybe even `/\G (?: (?: (?: \s{1,32766}+ )++ \| \# (?: .{1,32766}+ )*+ ){1,32766}+ )+ /xgc` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]