perl, light of my life, fire of my loins, &c.

[vahkvahk]

From a perl manual page:

Consider this pattern:

m{ \(
(
[^()]+ # x+
|
\( [^()]* \)
)+
\)
}x

I mean, really, I don't understand

Comments

i agree, it makes perfect sense

[garish_walls]

If you turn it sideways, it's a robot bunny with an amputated ear.

[nathan_adler]

I really don't even consider that perl; really. The regular expression library, although intrinsic to perl, is so vast and powerful I consider it a language unto itself. Mind you though, I love them both.

[vahkvahk]

Yeah, regexps are kind of like a minimal, hard-to-read declarative programming language. The power of perl is that, to some extent, you can use imperative, declarative, and functional structures depending what which makes the most sense.