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...consider splitting...Or define your X subpattern as a separate regex, then build the pattern with it:
However, the capturing parentheses are not going to capture everything this way.my $subpat = qr/(?:<\*\d+>)?([^<]+)<(\d+):(\d+)>/; $str =~/$subpat(?:,$subpat)*/;
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