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Re^6: Extract sequence of UC words?

by BrowserUk (Patriarch)
on Aug 19, 2008 at 06:31 UTC ( [id://705145]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re^5: Extract sequence of UC words?
in thread Extract sequence of UC words?

I upvoted your post above, but still your regex m/(\b(?:[A-Z]+(?:\s+[A-Z]+)*)+\b)/g made me squirm. Whenever I see sequences of nested quantifiers like that:+)*)+ I get uncomfortable, remembering various pathelogical cases I've constructed in the past.

To that end, I thunk again, and came up with this which I believe meets the 'spec', whilst avoiding the nested quantifiers;

m[ ( \b [A-Z] (?: [A-Z\s]* [A-Z] )? \b ) ]gx

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