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Re: Debugging regular expressions

by busunsl (Vicar)
on Jun 21, 2001 at 01:16 UTC ( [id://90196]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Debugging regular expressions

With Perl 5.6 you can use 'use re "debug"' and will get something like a trace of the regex.
It's not easy to read, but it helps.
I think you must have perl compiled with the DEBUGGING flag.

Look at perldoc perldebguts and search for 'regular'.

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