I'm going to write a regex article for The Perl Journal. I have several ideas, but I'm curious what the PerlMonks community would like to see written about. I wrote an introductory article for Linux Magazine in June 2002, and Pete Sergeant wrote an article for Perl.com about regex reversal based on my research in May 2001.

(I'm pleased to see 'sexeger' showing up in other places -- apparently, Pete's article and my personal research have touched people's lives!)

I'd rather not write an introductory article, but rather one focusing either on regex reversal as a practice, my upcoming Regexp::Parser module, or a specific facet of Perl's regexes, such as global matching and the /gc modifiers, or using code evaluations or delayed execution blocks ((?{...}) and (??{...})).

I'm open for suggestions, and if I had a larger ego, I'd ask vroom to make this the site poll. But I'm humble, so just /msg me or, more usefully, reply to this node with an idea that others can ++ or reply to. Perhaps I'll go by popularity of the node. I don't know. Help me help you.

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