On Fri, 6 Jul 2012 18:59:00 +0100
"Adam J. Gamble" <a.gam...@lucida.cc> wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I'm taking a (highly belated) first look at Perl today. From a
> background in Python, I'm coming to Perl, primarily out of curiosity
> with what it can do with regular expressions.
>
> To get to the point— is it possible to match a character class with a
> repeater that requires an exactly *n* OR *m* matches, rather than the
> traditional *{n, m}*. I've taken a look at
> http://perldoc.perl.org/perlrequick.html#Using-character-classes,
> which implies this wouldn't be possible? But, putting faith Perl's
> reputation for inherent quirkiness... if possible, I'd love to know
> what a solution would look like?
Try: m{ (?: .{n} | .{m} ) }msx
Of course, replace the period with the character set you're looking for.
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