Re: Dependencies, or, How Common is Regexp::Common?

You must know more than I do. Are there Perl comments that aren't "start at #, continue to the end of the line"? Or are there any strings that if they follow a #, it's suddenly not a comment anymore?

Note that $RE{comment}{Perl} matches just that, a Perl comment. It's not a parser that extracts comments from valid Perl code. All the regexes from Regexp::Common are context free. Anything that is context sensitive should be coded by the user.

Abigail

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Re: Re: Dependencies, or, How Common is Regexp::Common? by hardburn (Abbot) on Sep 17, 2003 at 13:46 UTC
I think the poster was talking about something like this: `print " # This is not a comment\n";` [download] Or that insane Acme::Comment module, but people who use that in a real program deserve what they get :) ---- I wanted to explore how Perl's closures can be manipulated, and ended up creating an object system by accident. -- Schemer Note: All code is untested, unless otherwise stated	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Dependencies, or, How Common is Regexp::Common? by Abigail-II (Bishop) on Sep 17, 2003 at 13:49 UTC
Which part of Note that $RE{comment}{Perl} matches just that, a Perl comment. It's not a parser that extracts comments from valid Perl code. All the regexes from Regexp::Common are context free. Anything that is context sensitive should be coded by the user. was unclear to you? Abigail	[reply]
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