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If I agree that matching >2 '\' is not intended, would you agree that it is still a valid UNC path ?

My intent was to provide the simplest possible regex. To do a production-level job, I would certainly invoke something like Path::Dispatcher::Rule::Regex .

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Re^4: Regex help
by CountZero (Bishop) on Apr 01, 2012 at 19:11 UTC
    The simplest possible regex to match the OP's string is /.*/ ;)

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