in reply to Re: matching
in thread matching not just words; alternative to (\w+) ?

Both of those will also match control characters, like ESC and NUL. Probably a bad idea.

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I wanted to explore how Perl's closures can be
manipulated, and ended up creating an object
system by accident. -- Schemer

: () { :|:& };:

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