in reply to RE (tilly) 4 (good try): Regex'ing backreferences
in thread Regex'ing backreferences
m{ foo ( # save to $1 [^b]* # 0 or more non-b characters (?: (?>b+) # 1 or more b's (NO BACKTRACKING!) (?: a(?!r) # an 'a' NOT followed by an 'r' | # or [^a] # a non-a character ) [^b]* # 0 or more non-b characters )* # that whole b... subset, 0 or more times ) foo # and foo }x;
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