Hi Discipulus

tybalt89 is combining the \G meta with //gc modifiers

• \G achors the search at the pos where the last regex left off
• unless you used the //c modifier, the pos of a previous regex was erased when it didn't match

This allows to split a big complicated regex into multiple perl statements.

And after combining with recursive calls this permits to parse nested structures.

See perldocs for examples and details of this technique (e.g. perlretut ) or Friedl's Regex Book.

Or even better older threads in the monastery :)

You shouldn't be despaired, the demonstrated code is neither easy to read nor maintain.

It should better use //x modifiers and more comments, but obfuscated wizardry is of course cooler! ;-))

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