long lines

[Xenos]

Hi. Is there a way to continue very long reg. ex. lines on mutliple lines?
I tried using a backslash at the end of line which works in other languages,
but Perl seemed to treat the escaped newline as part of the expression. I
have some very complex reg. ex. that span many columns that I would like to
break up across multiple lines for readability. Is there a way to do this?


Thanks,

DrX

 

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

Hi. Is there a way to continue very long reg. ex. lines on mutliple
lines? I tried using a backslash at the end of line which works in
other languages, but Perl seemed to treat the escaped newline as part
of the expression. I have some very complex reg. ex. that span many
columns that I would like to break up across multiple lines for
readability. Is there a way to do this?

That's what the /x modifier is for.