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On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 03:07:05PM -0700, Edward Peschko wrote:
Sorry, I could not guess what you have in mind...
Yours,
Ilya
> I'd like to be able to define a coderef that looks like the following:
>
> my $_coderef = sub { my ($text) = @_;
> # text starts from position at which regular expression last
> # matched.
> # do something with $text, including regular expressions to modify
> # pos($text);
> # change pos so that the regular expression 'picks up' where the
> # sub left off (ie: pos).
> }
>
> Then people could write stuff to do particularly difficult regular expressions using
> Inline::C, and you could say:
>
> if ($varb =~ m"($balanced_parens)") # is a C call.
> {
>
> }
>
> which IMO is far more intuitive (and cleaner) than anything to do with (?...).
>
> Ed
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