DCPM: splitting on lookaheads - verbose

[Matthew Browning]

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On Friday 31 October 2003 13:37, Steve Marvell wrote:
> [verbose stuff]

...that's fairly verbose! One niggle:

> > sub border;
>
> Pre-declare the subroutine so it doesn't clog the top of my code.
>

This is now unnecessary if you are invoking your subroutine with 
parentheses.

> Questions are, of course, always welcome.
>
> PS AFAIK zero-width stuff is a Perl extension to regular expressions,
>    though it may have been stolen by other languages.

I've flicked through a couple of books and it would appear that Python 
has comparable features.

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