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Regex question - identify which pattern comes first

harangzsolt33 — Sat, 02 May 2026 00:12:00 +0000

I feel like I have learned a lot in the past 10 years since I started learning Perl, but I still probably don't know more than half of what's possible using regex. I have often come across situations ...

Healing Debian Perl (and whatever else is broken out there)

Anonymous Monk — Fri, 01 May 2026 11:15:18 +0000

Apparently some package installers on some systems like Debian fail to create .packlist files for installed modules! This policy oversight breaks critical parts of the perl toolchain that depend on co...

Re^3: Regex question - identify which pattern comes first (named captures)

LanX — Sun, 03 May 2026 21:29:02 +0000

You might want to correct this > (?: Cheers Rolf (addicted to the Perl Programming Lan...

Re^2: Regex question - identify which pattern comes first (named captures)

ikegami — Sun, 03 May 2026 15:53:56 +0000

Adjusted for OP: if ( $str =~ / (?: (? BAABC{2} ) | (? CACD{2} ) | (? DASC{2} ) /x ) { my $first = substr( ( keys( %+ ) )[0], 1 ); ...

Re^5: copyfail challenge: making Perl version smaller

Anonymous Monk — Sun, 03 May 2026 15:40:53 +0000

Picking apart an obviously humorous post is actually trolling, or a symptom of an all too common psychological disorder, take your pick. Now back to our regularly scheduled...

Re^4: Installation of 2 module prerequisites failing - using cpanm

LanX — Sun, 03 May 2026 12:07:51 +0000

> I am capable of learning from past mistakes Well, actions speak louder than words. 🤷🏻‍♂️ Maybe convince us by replying to those who are sti...

Re^4: copyfail challenge: making Perl version smaller

LanX — Sun, 03 May 2026 11:59:34 +0000

Trolly... ...

Re^4: Installation of 2 module prerequisites failing - using cpanm

hippo — Sat, 02 May 2026 22:29:24 +0000

I also use Gnu/Linux systems and usually compare problems when they come up to see if I can reproduce the difficulty on Linux. Did you do that for the problem i...

Re^3: copyfail challenge: making Perl version smaller (trillion dollar lolcow)

Anonymous Monk — Sat, 02 May 2026 18:23:30 +0000

Duck.ai offers unpaid service. The quality of those models is obviously not the same. Obviously... The vulnerability in question was actually found with AI assistance. Actu...

Re^3: Installation of 2 module prerequisites failing - using cpanm

Intrepid — Sat, 02 May 2026 16:57:24 +0000

Rolf wrote: Multiple conflicting Perl installations and messed up environment variables are a recurring theme in many posts of this particular monk. Tha...

Re: Regex question - identify which pattern comes first (named captures)

LanX — Sat, 02 May 2026 15:18:08 +0000

requires 5.10 for named capture groups: This code will even give you the sequence. use v5.10; use strict; use warnings; my ...

Reaped: Re^5: Regex question - identify which pattern comes first

NodeReaper — Sat, 02 May 2026 14:43:20 +0000

This node was taken out by the NodeReaper on May 02, 2026 at 16:26 UTCReason: [LanX]: Reap: duplicate caused by lag-frustration-clickingYou may view [href://?op=viewreaped;nod...

Re^5: Regex question - identify which pattern comes first

LanX — Sat, 02 May 2026 14:43:11 +0000

No the feature was already present in 5.8 5.8.0/perlre#(?{ code }) I have another (simpler?) solution in mind which was pr...

Re^4: Regex question - identify which pattern comes first

harangzsolt33 — Sat, 02 May 2026 14:20:27 +0000

No, the second solution did not work. But the first one does work, and I never thought of doing it that way even though I knew you could capture using the parentheses. I didn't know you can use define...

Re^2: copyfail challenge: making Perl version smaller (trillion dollar lolcow)

LanX — Sat, 02 May 2026 13:42:35 +0000

Duck.ai offers unpaid service. The quality of those models is obviously not the same. The vulnerability in question was actually found with AI assistance. ...

Re^3: Regex question - identify which pattern comes first

LanX — Sat, 02 May 2026 13:28:33 +0000

> that is an amazingly simple solution! Did you try it? These (??{ $first = 1; }) won't work because they'll include 1,2 or 3 into the regex. Try (?{ $first ...

Re^2: Regex question - identify which pattern comes first

harangzsolt33 — Sat, 02 May 2026 02:15:03 +0000

Oh wow, that is an amazingly simple solution! Thank you so much!!! :-)...

Re: Regex question - identify which pattern comes first

ikegami — Sat, 02 May 2026 01:53:06 +0000

if ( /(BAABC{2})|(CACD{2})|(DASC{2})/ ) { my $first = ( defined( $1 ) ? 1 : defined( $2 ) ? 2 : 3 ); ... } local our $first; / (?: BA...

Re: Healing Debian Perl (and whatever else is broken out there)

Anonymous Monk — Fri, 01 May 2026 11:24:59 +0000

TIMTOWTDI, sorry it's late here, forgot to rewrite pipes as backticks: # archlib: The core .packlist perl -MConfig -e 'print `ls -la "$Config{archlib}/.packlist"`' perl -MConfig -e 'print `...

Re^5: copyfail challenge: making Perl version smaller

marto — Fri, 01 May 2026 08:33:04 +0000

"So we can trust open source modules? It's reasonable to expect you can trust something more if you have access to the source code, but you'd need to read and understand it, and the ...

Re: copyfail challenge: making Perl version smaller (trillion dollar lolcow)

Anonymous Monk — Fri, 01 May 2026 07:05:12 +0000

You need to stop smoking those tokens bro. You did not fail, some robot failed. Confusing yourself with a pseudo-random text generator is a symptom of "AI" psychosis. Go touch grass man, but don't...