> very simplified, but the basic point is there. Make things > readable, comment, etc....
there you go again jayce, helping to make perl an actual useful language for software engineering instead of a language for obfuscated code tricks... ;-) -josh > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Jayce^ > Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2006 11:19 AM > To: Provo Linux Users Group Mailing List > Subject: Re: Interesting little regex > > Charles Curley wrote: > >> You've got the x flag, please use it! > > > > You mean this regex is x rated? > > hehe... > actually though, for any who don't know: > In perl regex, there are flags at the end (to be fixed, perl6 > has them rightly in the front) that modify your engine. One > of these is the underutilized x modifier. When added, it > makes whitespace insignificant in your regex, so you can > nicely tab/space/newline in order to actually be readable... > Oh, and you can/should add comments also. so: > > s/(foo|bar)//; > > can be > s/ > ( # either > foo > | # or... > bar > ) > //x; > > > very simplified, but the basic point is there. Make things > readable, comment, etc.... > > -- > Jayce^ > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ > /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
