No, don't. Go with the tips Corion gave you above, it's much more sensible to use split or a module - my explanation was mostly to satisfy academic curiosity, and not meant as a suggestion on how to solve your problem. | [reply] |
As I mentioned above, I would not be able to take that approach. Since, I want to enable support to match log lines of any format with grouping. If I go by CSV, then I would not be able to parse other formatted logs like syslogs and other proprietary logs.
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You need to think out of the box. Make your system handle the various cases. A regex, a split, an unpack, maybe even an xml parser....
Definitely doing it the way you are is wrong. If you are really insistent on ignoring our advice (unwise really), then at least use inversion and you might want to investigate the (?>...) construct "atomic matching". As well as adding anchors to your pattern.
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$world=~s/war/peace/g
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