On May 7, Timothy Kimball said:

>For a mind-blowing example of this technique of building big regexes
>from little ones, see Appendix B of Jeffrey Friedl's book "Mastering
>Regular Expressions".  And for extra credit, parse the regex on pg 316
>by hand. ;)

Heh, that work is made somewhat simpler (backslash-wise, at least) with
the qr// operator.

Also, I'm glad to report I'm constructing an outline for a Perl regular
expressions book.

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