Re: Is there another way to define a regex?

[Tom Browder]

On Sun, Jan 17, 2016 at 3:03 PM, Moritz Lenz <mor...@faui2k3.org> wrote:
> On 01/17/2016 06:07 PM, Tom Browder wrote:
...
>> # regex of dirs to ignore
>> my regex dirs {
>>   \/home\/user\/\.cpan |
>>   \/home\/tbrowde\/\.emacs
>> }
>
> Better written as
>
> my regex dirs {
>    | '/home/user/.cpan'
>    | '/home/tbowde/.emacs'
> }
>
> Yes, quoting does now work in regexes too. Cool, right? :-)

Yes, very cool!  I have decided to use that format and it does ease
adding or modifying entries.

My final regex looks like this (shortened to only a couple of entries):

my regex dirs {
  ^
  \s*
  [        # <= non-capture grouping
           | '/home/user/.cpan'
           | '/home/tbowde/.emacs'
           # more entries...
  ]
}

used like this:

  next LINE if $line ~~ /<dirs>/;

Thanks, Moritz!

Best,

-Tom