Why?

I mean it may be a nice exercise, a nice meditation, but what's the use? So Perl::Critic tells you that the regexp on line 1234 of your script is more complex that whatever random treshold someone set. What now? You can add /x, lot's of whitespace and some comments and hope Perl::Critic notices and actually think it's less complex then. Or you can move parts of the regexp into variables and construct the regexp from parts. And again hope Perl::Critic notices and computes the complexity of the stuff that's left on that particular line and not of the completed regexp. Or, you can just turn this off.

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In reply to Re: Assessing the complexity of regular expressions by Jenda
in thread Assessing the complexity of regular expressions by kyle

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