Dear Monks,

I've recently started to use Regexp::Common to write more readable regular expressions. In particular, I'm using the "delimited" feature set to identify path names. However, it seems using backslash "\" as a delimiter won't work. The code example below illustrates the problem.

I'm not sure whether the problem is with the way I'm using Regexp::Common, or whether I've uncovered a bug with the module. Any suggestions would be most appreciated. 

use Regexp::Common qw[ delimited ];

my $P1 = '../matrix-ops/matopmul.mk';
my $P2 = 'C:\matrix-ops\matopmul.mk';

print "P1 has path\n" if ($P1 =~ /$RE{delimited}{-delim => '\/'}/ );
print "P2 has path\n" if ($P2 =~ /$RE{delimited}{-delim => '\/'}/ );

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Cheers, Ron.

In reply to Delimiters in Regexp::Common by rongrw

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