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

[Stephen R Laniel]

On Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 03:23:43PM -0400, Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> Perl itself knows which part of the regex failed to match.
> It would seem silly if this information were not available.

I wonder whether the Parse::RecDescent module would help me:
http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/06/13/recdecent.html

I'm effectively recreating a low-grade recursive-descent
parser with my regex bit in any case.

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