in reply to validate variable-length lines in one regex?

Hi monks -- longtime listener; first time caller. I just tried this one over at StackOverflow but the one responder apparently got upset when I suggested his quite nice solution wasn't right for my situation -- and deleted his own answer and all comments! His ball and he's going home! Oh well.

I wouldn't call that upset, just not feeding the trolls, SO is nice like that, if the OP is being a troll, you can delete your communications and forget about it

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Re^2: validate variable-length lines in one regex?
by uhClem (Scribe) on Jul 06, 2015 at 18:21 UTC
    But my goodness -- I spent all the livelong morning being ever so nice! And it was really a very lovely solution he provided, and I said so. If I'm a troll I'm not very good at it.

      But my goodness -- I spent all the livelong morning being ever so nice! And it was really a very lovely solution he provided, and I said so. If I'm a troll I'm not very good at it.

      Why bring up experiences on another site (waah, they didn't help me)?

      If you're trying to get help from the perlmonks, why wouldn't you improve your question instead ?

      The guy who was trying to help you didn't take his ball and go home -- he just stopped trying to help a vague troll

        Waah they didn't help me? Not at all! He did help, at first; put what I thought was considerable effort into it.