I'd really like to be able to put a bit more logic into my regexes. At the moment, I guess I can do this with the (??{ ... }) assertion.

I recently answered a question about inserting newlines every 80 characters, or at the end of the previous word (if we're in the middle of one). What I wanted my solution to be was something like:

• match words until we're above 80 characters
• backtrack to the last non-word location less than 80 characters
• insert a newline there

That's not as easy as it seems. In a couple of minutes, I'm going to attempt to write a solution that does this. And then you'll see why I'd like to be able to go to a specific point in the regex, or at least be able to break out of a quantifier.

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Jeff[japhy]Pinyan: Perl, regex, and perl hacker.
s++=END;++y(;-P)}y js++=;shajsj<++y(p-q)}?print:??;

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