gregor herrmann <gre...@debian.org> writes:
> Sounds as if we need something like a "zero-width negative
> look-behind assertion" (I had to copy this from perlre :)).
> foreach (grep { $_ } split /(?<!\\)\s+/, $data->{"files-excluded"}) {
> s?\\??g; # to keep the style of what's in uscan ...
> say $_;
> }
The trouble with this approach is that it mis-splits:
foo\\ bar
which should become "foo\" and "bar". You need a negative look-behind
assertion that accepts an odd number of backslashes, at which point you
run into the problem that negative look-behind assertions have to be
fixed-length.
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Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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