use Perl

• Marketing Information (Score:1)

  by chaoticset (2105)

  If you ever have an action figure, it must have the ability to say the phrase, "I love you, Magic Bathroom."

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  You are what you think.
• Re: Magic Bathroom (Score:2)

  by dws (341)

  My copy of Stein's "Network Programming with Perl" now lives in the bathroom, along with Thomas's "pick axe" Ruby book, a stack of 3x5 cards, and a few pens. The fan in the room drowns out distracting noises.
• Related Perlmonks node (Score:1)

  by dug (2501)

  http://perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=204716 [perlmonks.org]
  
  -- Douglas
• and the regex problem/solution was? (Score:1)

  by n1vux (1492)

  So what was the problem and the solution and the explanation for why it works?

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  Bill
  # I had a sig when sigs were cool
  use Sig;
  • Re:and the regex problem/solution was? (Score:2)

    by pudge (1)

    It had to do with alternation and backtracking. We were matching any consecutive nonwhitespace chars, and treating HTML entities as single chars, for the purpose of counting (we were breaking up strings of $n chars) and to make sure we don't split in the middle of the entities. So something like this (simplified):

    $foo =~ /\G (( &\w+; | \S ){$n}) /gx;

    Consider $foo = 'abc&' and $n = 3. I would want 'abc' to match, and '&' to not match, since it is not 3 chars long. '&am' matches,