Re: comment inside perl regular expression

With the /x modifier:

my $re = qr{
      "[^"]*"   # first quoted string = URL
       ...      # more stuff
}x
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Re^2: comment inside perl regular expression by JavaFan (Canon) on Mar 13, 2009 at 12:59 UTC
Or by doing something really wacky: `/(?:(*FAIL)\QThis is a comment\E)?PATTERN/` [download] Not something I recommend doing though.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: comment inside perl regular expression by moritz (Cardinal) on Mar 13, 2009 at 13:01 UTC
If you want inline comments, you can use `(?# comment )` instead, which is less wacky, but I still think that it's no great thing in terms of readability.	[reply] [d/l]