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in thread Whats your favorite nonstandard regex quote char?

I like using paired delimiters in this context, usually curlies.

Speaking of quote delimiters, there's a lovely piece of code in Perl_yylex() (in toke.c) to find the matching balanced delimiter of a quoted string:

    if (term && (tmps = strchr("([{< )]}> )]}>",term)))
        term = tmps[5];

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Pop quiz: why does this work? Why are the closing delimiters repeated twice?

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