I personally believe that this is fair enough, but one point that is important to be stressed, and may be of interest to the OP, is that even if (s)he may not need them say now or on a much frequent basis, Perl regexen in perl support extensions allowing (mostly) arbitrary code: I don't know about pcre, but I doubt that they're ported there to, allowing constructs which involve code in some other languages. So definitely this should be a point in favour of (strictly) Perl regexen.

(Apologies for replying so late.)

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In reply to Re^2: regex in perl and Java by blazar
in thread regex in perl and Java by Anonymous Monk

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