I know Perl has regex built in, but I am looking to see if there exists a module for doing state machines for pattern matching of a simplier nature (eg pretty much only supporting arbitraries like '0 or more', 'exactly 1'). I'm specifically looking to do this on a list as opposed to a string, in other words, trying to pattern match a list for a given series of elements. I know that I could 'cheat', and join the list into a string, and glorp off the regex engine to match with that, but I don't want to limit what I do to just string elements in the list at the moment (How other element types would be behave in pattern matching, I've yet to figure that out). CPAN has no obvious modules for this. Not that a state machine isn't hard to develop, but I'd rather not reinvent the wheel.
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