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• DESCRIPTION
  • How can I hope to use regular expressions without creating illegible and unmaintainable code?
  • I'm having trouble matching over more than one line. What's wrong?
  • How can I pull out lines between two patterns that are themselves on different lines?
  • I put a pattern into $/ but it didn't work. What's wrong?
  • How do I substitute case insensitively on LHS, but preserving case on the RHS?
  • How can I make C<\w> match accented characters?
  • How can I match a locale-smart version of C?
  • How can I quote a variable to use in a regex?
  • What is C really for?
  • How do I use a regular expression to strip C style comments from a file?
  • Can I use Perl regular expressions to match balanced text?
  • What does it mean that regexes are greedy? How can I get around it?
  • How can I do approximate matching?
  • How do I efficiently match many patterns at once?
  • Why does using $&, $`, or $' slow my program down?
  • What good is C<\G> in a pattern?
  • Are Perl regexes DFAs or NFAs? Are they POSIX compliant?
  • What's wrong with using grep or map in a void context?
  • How can I match strings with multi-byte characters?
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