I recently discovered the very handy Regexp::Common module. (I've seen it before but never checked it out) I was thinking it would be nice if you could pull out expressions for those times where you don't want to take the speed hit of loading and using the module. So I looked into YAPE::Regex::Explain which seemed to do the trick.

My question is does anyone see any caveats to this approach? Reading the pods, it doesn't seem like there would be any problems but out of my Perl skills, regexes are certainly my weakest area. Are there other ways of getting the source form of a regex? I couldn't really find too much on the subject.

-Lee

"To be civilized is to deny one's nature."

In reply to Decompiling Regular Expressions by shotgunefx

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