Re: Regex won't match.

[Sue D. Nymme]

Probably what you're doing wrong is assigning the string to the variable wrong. But since you didn't show how you did that, it's just a guess.

Usually, what you want to do is this:

$TERMSDEF = qr/\b\w+\b|(?:'.+?')|(?:".+?")/;

That will preserve all the regex semantics, keep your code readable, cure cancer, etc.

[ikegami]

To be equivalent, it should be:

$TERMSDEF = qr/\b\w+\b|(?:'.+?')|(?:".+?")/isx;

Mind you, the "i" and "x" are useless here, but the "s" is necessary.

[Anonymous Monk]

Excellent! It works now. Thank you.