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in reply to RFC: Perl regex to validate arithmetic expressions

there's also the option of using Parse::Yapp and validating arithmetic expressions. In general when "discovering" Perl regexes you think they are so powerful that you can use them for a lot of stuff, but if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
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