Folks,
I need help to reset my brain, w.r.t. an apparently-straightforward regex.
I am sure I am missing something obvious here.
I keep thinking that the regex below ought to get me all the words on a line
except the backslash. Instead I am only getting the final word.
(In my code, I threw out the regex, and resorted to split(). But my mental
blind spot on this regex is bothering me.)
> % cat > input.txt
> a b c \
> d e
> %
> % perl -lne 'print for m{ ^ (?: \s* (\w\S*) )+ \s* \\? $ }xg' !$
> c
> e
> %
peace, || Just the facts, ma'am:
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