perl -MYAPE::Regex::Explain -E 'say YAPE::Regex::Explain->new("\b (MODULE \s+ [A-Z]+[0-9]+) \s* [(] .+? [)]")->explain'
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The regular expression:
(?-imsx: (MODULE s+ [A-Z]+[0-9]+) s* [(] .+? [)])
matches as follows:
NODE EXPLANATION
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(?-imsx: group, but do not capture (case-sensitive)
(with ^ and $ matching normally) (with . not
matching \n) (matching whitespace and #
normally):
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' '
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( group and capture to \1:
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MODULE 'MODULE '
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s+ 's' (1 or more times (matching the most
amount possible))
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' '
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[A-Z]+ any character of: 'A' to 'Z' (1 or more
times (matching the most amount
possible))
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[0-9]+ any character of: '0' to '9' (1 or more
times (matching the most amount
possible))
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) end of \1
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' '
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s* 's' (0 or more times (matching the most
amount possible))
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' '
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[(] any character of: '('
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' '
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.+? any character except \n (1 or more times
(matching the least amount possible))
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' '
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[)] any character of: ')'
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) end of grouping
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#!/usr/bin/env perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use YAPE::Regex::Explain;
my $re = qr/ \b (MODULE \s+ [A-Z]+[0-9]+) \s* [(] .+? [)] /x;
my $exp = YAPE::Regex::Explain->new($re)->explain;
print $exp;
exit;
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The regular expression:
(?x-ims: \b (MODULE \s+ [A-Z]+[0-9]+) \s* [(] .+? [)] )
matches as follows:
NODE EXPLANATION
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(?x-ims: group, but do not capture (disregarding
whitespace and comments) (case-sensitive)
(with ^ and $ matching normally) (with . not
matching \n):
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\b the boundary between a word char (\w) and
something that is not a word char
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( group and capture to \1:
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MODULE 'MODULE'
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\s+ whitespace (\n, \r, \t, \f, and " ") (1
or more times (matching the most amount
possible))
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[A-Z]+ any character of: 'A' to 'Z' (1 or more
times (matching the most amount
possible))
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[0-9]+ any character of: '0' to '9' (1 or more
times (matching the most amount
possible))
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) end of \1
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\s* whitespace (\n, \r, \t, \f, and " ") (0 or
more times (matching the most amount
possible))
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[(] any character of: '('
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.+? any character except \n (1 or more times
(matching the least amount possible))
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[)] any character of: ')'
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) end of grouping
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