in reply to Re^2: how to find differences between two huge files
in thread how to find differences between two huge files

I don't see why you want to replace the regex? It's concise, fast and does exactly what I need it to do.

Is it the form of the regex itself? Noone would look twice if it were m[" ( [^"]+ ) "]x, and it's exactly the same operation.

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