Hi folks. I'd like to ask for your help in something. While normally requests for help are posted to SOPW, I'm not looking for wisdom I'm looking for your regexes.

I need to build some test cases for a patch im working on for the core. I need to get together a body of regexes that use alternations in various ways. When i say alternations I mean things like /a|list|of|words/ not so much things like /(mad)*|[patterns]/. (BTW, this isnt to say that /(mad)*|[patterns]|a|list|of|words/ doesnt qualify, it does for sure.) So if you have regexes that might be suitable id really appreciate it if you could reply to this node with them. Real life regexes that might be built with things like join('|',@words) would be interesting. Especially if they are complicated.

Thanks a lot.

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