Re^2: Any way to use "POSIX Extended Regular Expressions"?

You must mean re::engine::POSIX or re::engine::TRE. These modules, which give you posix regular expressions got pulled from CPAN, but you can still find them on backpan. They interpret the /x re option as the regex being an extended re.

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Re^3: Any way to use "POSIX Extended Regular Expressions"? by Lightknight (Beadle) on May 25, 2010 at 09:48 UTC
In perldoc POSIX::Regex, jettero writes: Yes, I'm aware there's special support for alternate regular expression systems in perl 5.10.x ... let me know when people are done with perl 5.6 and 5.8 and I'll delete this from CPAN. Thanks. I'm assuming that is a reference to re::engine::.* packages on CPAN that got pulled. But I've never heard of backpan before this. I would like to move forward in a way least likely to cause problems in the future. re::engine::.* seems to provide the cleanest syntax, but until I know better I prefer CPAN to "backpan" packages. I don't know why they got pulled from CPAN. Does anyone why that happened? Which would you use: POSIX::Regex from CPAN or re::engine::POSIX from backpan?	[reply]
Re^4: Any way to use "POSIX Extended Regular Expressions"? by ambrus (Abbot) on May 25, 2010 at 17:59 UTC
I've no idea why it's pulled, you'd have to ask Avar if you wanted to know. I don't know POSIX::Regex so I can't advice on that.	[reply]