The x Modifier: The Expressive Modifier : modifier « Regular Expression « Perl






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The x Modifier: The Expressive Modifier

    

#The x modifier allows you to place comments within the regular expression


$_="A to B\n";
/A  # Searching for A /x;
print "Comments and spaces were removed and \$& is $&\n";








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