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  • Try this instead: (Score:2)

    by Damian (784) on 2005.05.05 23:44 (#40231)
    my $VALUE  = do {
        use re 'eval';
        qr/(?>($QUOTED|$NUM))(??{'.' eq $^N ? FAIL : SUCCEED})/;
    };

    my $text = 'name => "foo", fav.num => 3';
    my @text = split /$VALUE/ => $text;
    print Dumper \@text;

    • Very interesting. I suspect it would take me a while to debug, but I've discovered that while this passes my test case wonderfully, it fails miserably when using that in the Lexer.pm [plover.com] example from HOP. My test case is clearly not representing the problem as well as I thought since others are having this problem on the Perlmonks site.

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