[Linux-disciples] Perl: displaying the part of a match that failed

[Stephen R Laniel]

On Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 03:18:43PM -0400, Adam Rosi-Kessel wrote:
> I could post some links from the archives, but I'll refrain for now...

I said "most." I *hope* that's true.

> I think you're hoping that there is some secret regexp extension that
> solves it for you, but I'm pretty sure that doesn't exist.

Perl itself knows which part of the regex failed to match.
It would seem silly if this information were not available.

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