[nzlug] Hard regexp question

[Nick 'Zaf' Clifford]

Martin D Kealey wrote:

<snip>

> Note we don't check that the each character is NOT a backslash; this can be
> guaranteed, since the alternation won't backtrack, and we avoid the singular
> exception of a trailing backslash at the end of input because we insist that
> it finishes with a double quote. In general though you'd probably want to
> write
>
> /"
>  (
>   (?> \s* [^ "] )
>   ( \\. | [^"\\] )+
>  )
>  "/x
>
> Note the trailing /x, which make the whole thing a bit less of a write-only
> language (hopefully!).
>
>   
/me bows to your superior regex skills and geekyness factor.

Nick