38. Summary, and What's Left To Come
- So, now you know all about literal characters, metacharacters and metasequences, how to get backreferences,
how to search and how to search and replace.
- Now you can get out there, and start regex-ing!
- But, there's still a little more left to know:
- Greediness
- How regex engines work: DFA, Traditional NFA and POSIX NFA
- Why it matters how they work!
- Neat Perl-specific stuff: Regex modifiers: Case insensitive,
global searches (including the use of the multi-match anchor)
and Free-form regexes, lookahead and non-greedy quantifiers
and Perl variable interpolation
- Regexes can't do everything!
- However, it'll have to wait for another time!
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