in reply to Problem with recursive pattern matching

from perlre
(??{ code })
WARNING: This extended regular expression feature is considered highly experimental, and may be changed or deleted without notice.

But there again I have an old version of perlre ;)

Replies are listed 'Best First'.
Re: Re: Problem with recursive pattern matching
by converter (Priest) on Jul 26, 2001 at 19:37 UTC

    The (??{code}) construct was introduced in perl 5.6.0. As far as I know, it's still considered experimental.