Andrew Dunstan <and...@dunslane.net> writes: > On 2024-03-12 Tu 18:59, Tom Lane wrote: >> I wonder whether perlcritic has sufficiently deep understanding of >> Perl code that it could find these hazards.
> Yeah, that was my thought too. I'd start with ProhibitComplexRegexes.pm > as a template. Oooh. Taking a quick look at the source code: https://metacpan.org/dist/Perl-Critic/source/lib/Perl/Critic/Policy/RegularExpressions/ProhibitComplexRegexes.pm it seems like it'd be pretty trivial to convert that from "complain if regex contains more than N characters" to "complain if regex contains zero characters". regards, tom lane
