in reply to Detecting Dangling Commas in JavaScript

The backreferences \1 and \2 should only be used inside a regular expression, outside a regular expression you should use $1 and $2 instead so that should be: 

s#^((?:[^/\n]|/(?!/))*),((?:\s*|//.*$|/\*(?:[^*]|\*(?!/))*\*/)*\s*[}\]
+])#$1$2#mg

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Re^2: Detecting Dangling Commas in JavaScript
by wink (Scribe) on Oct 27, 2010 at 19:14 UTC
    Duly noted, thanks, I will change it. This is only the 2nd Perl script I've written in the last year... I'm a bit rusty. ;)
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