in reply to Things you should need to know before using Perl regexes. (Humour, with a serious point)

I'm curious what you were actually trying to link to in:

Oh. and here is a solution that prevents some of the problems by wrapping each call to the regex engine.

Because it just does a search for the word "here" AFAICT

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Re^2: Things you should need to know before using Perl regexes. (Humour, with a serious point)
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Oct 25, 2006 at 13:16 UTC

    It's a placeholder for a link to the module described for when I get around to writing it.

    (You did notice the word "Humour" in the title didn't you :)


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