"Deven T. Corzine" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I've yet to see a concrete example of where the current behavior is
helpful,
What about matching C comments?
($first_comment) = $code =~ m!(/\*.*?\*/)!s;
# (ignore issues with quoted strings in $code
Works correctly under the current
=head1 TITLE
Extend regex syntax to provide for return of a hash of matched subpatterns
=head1 VERSION
Maintainer: Kevin Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 23 Aug 2000
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Number: 150
Version: 2
Status: Frozen
=head1 ABSTRACT
Currently regexes return
=head1 TITLE
Allow multiply matched groups in regexes to return a listref of all matches
=head1 VERSION
Maintainer: Kevin Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 30 Sep 2000
Version: 1
Mailing List: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Status: Frozen
=head1 DESCRIPTION
Since the October 1 RFC deadline
(This thread has been inactive for a while. See
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Long ago Tom Christiansen wrote:
This is useful in that it would stop being number dependent.
For example, you can't now safely say
/$var
At 11:23 AM -0600 on 8/24/00, Tom Christiansen wrote:
This is useful in that it would stop being number dependent.
For example, you can't now safely say
/$var (foo) \1/
and guarantee for arbitrary contents of $var that your you have
the right number backref anymore.
Good point. Thanks.
