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in reply to Re: Named capture backreferences cannot be used in character classes?
in thread Named capture backreferences cannot be used in character classes?

that is shorter than your regex.

Except I need to retain knowledge of the quote type, so: qr[(?<FQ>")[^"]+"|(?<FQ>')[^']+']; but that's fine.


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