Re^3: This regex seems to have splattered non-greedy everywhere

Bug aside, your regex could use some refactoring. I'd suggest:

m{
  ( [^']*? (?: '[^']*' [^']*? )* )
  XX
  |
  (.+) $
}x
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The unrolled loop of the first half and the $ anchor of the second half should control the performance.

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Re^4: This regex seems to have splattered non-greedy everywhere by fizbin (Chaplain) on Aug 10, 2005 at 20:12 UTC
You realize that the unrolled loop is what I used as the equivalent version above, right? In fact, unrolling the loop like this (without the $ anchor) is exactly what I did to the java code to make performance jump back to fast-enough-not-to-matter. `-- @/=map{[/./g]}qw/.h_nJ Xapou cets krht ele_ r_ra/; map{y/X_/\n /;print}map{pop@$_}@/for@/` [download]	[reply] [d/l]