this is from 180953 .. it pulls out IMDB movie titles from the genre file... 

next unless m{
     ^\> \s+          # starts with "> "
     (.*?             # main part of title ($1 = title)
     \((\d+)(/.*?)?\) # year inside parens, might be (1999/I)
                      # ($2 = year, $3 = crap)
     (\s+\(.*?\))?    # ($4 = crap .. movies might be tv/vids/games)
     )\t+Sci\-Fi$     # must end in Sc-Fi
}x;

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I use it as an example when peope ask me what /x is for, and when they ask what *? means.

(It could also be a good example of non-capturing parens -- if it was changed to acctualy use them -- I sometimes prefer to capture and ignore unless needed ... one mans crap, is another mans treasure.)

In reply to Re: Regular Expressions: Call for Examples by hossman
in thread Regular Expressions: Call for Examples by japhy

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