I spend some time trying to find my mistake while solving that problem:

I have a text block, which consists of two different types of lines: 1) lines which starts with /[^#\n]*#/, 2) any other lines.

Then I need to glue all consecutive lines of second type. In other words I need to delete newlines between them.

Below it is a simplified problem, and me trying to solve it: 

use warnings;
use strict;

my $m = (1 << 15) + 1;   # 32769
my $_="#\n" . "A\n" x $m . "#\n";
    s/
    ^[^#].*?$        # find a line which haven't "#" at it beginning.
    (?:\n[^#].*?$)*    # find consecutive n (n>=0) such lines
    /
        $a=$&,
        $a=~y{\n}{}d,  # delete newlines
        $a
    /megx ;           ## multiline, eval, global, comments
my $n = () = /\n/sg;    # calc the number of occurences of "\n"
print $n

# ANSWER: 4, My expectation was: 3

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Perl v5.16 STDERR says "Complex regular subexpression recursion limit (32766)".

My questions are: 1) can't we still change this limit by our hands? (Seems that Python allows so). UPD: 2) shouldn't it be an error if the answer which I gain is incorrect, and a knowledge about these limits are specific in my opinion, and me using "strict"?

In reply to Re^2: Complex regular subexpression recursion limit by rsFalse
in thread Complex regular subexpression recursion limit by joerg.ludwig

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