Hola Monks,

I wrote a "c-like" routine for parsing a "here doc"...and thought someone probably has a regex that does this hanging around. I am finding that my parsing code is hard to understand after not working with it for a while ;-)

My ultimate goal is to support 2 types of config items in my config file, either: "end of line" or "here doc".

For example: 

param1 = yes

param2 = <<END_STRING
  this would be good for beginning and trailing spaces
  and where multi-line things are needed...
END_STRING

param 3 = maybe

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Thanks for any pointers or regexes!

And if you have a regex could you explain how it works? I can do the basics 'ok', but not anything really advanced ;-)

In reply to regex for here doc? by smackdab

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