PERLREGUTS(1) Perl Programmers Reference Guide PERLREGUTS(1)

PERLREGUTS(1) Perl Programmers Reference Guide PERLREGUTS(1) # PERLREGUTS(1) Perl Programmers Reference Guide PERLREGUTS(1) NNAAMMEE # perlreguts - Description of the Perl regular expression engine. DDEESSCCRRIIPPTTIIOONN # This document is an attempt to shine some light on the guts of the regex engine and how it works. The regex engine represents a significant chunk of the perl codebase, but is relatively poorly understood. This document is a meagre attempt at addressing this situation. ...