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Yeah, after hacking with perl for a while, i got interested in how it worked under the hood, and had some trouble following.

Check out the regex compilation module: http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/GBARR/perl5.005_03/regcomp.c

And execution: http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/GBARR/perl5.005_03/regexec.c



Well, anything touched by Ilya Zakharevich is going to be hard to read, even by the standards of the Perl source code. That means that the regular expression engine will be particularly hard to read.




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