[oak perl] Regex Practices #1: separate lines?

David Fetter david at fetter.org
Tue Mar 16 11:14:27 CST 2004


On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 10:24:48PM -0800, George Woolley wrote:
> Tony,
> 
> When writing very simple regular expressions like
>       ^key=
>       :$
> do you recommend using several lines?

Hrm.  I tend to keep my regexes simple enough that they fit on one
line.  Complex things are break-up-able into several regexes, at least
IME.

Cheers,
D
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