Alex Shinn scripsit:

> BTW, I'll give John the benefit of the doubt that he's only
> using this for very quick & dirty Perl one-liners and not
> ever saving this in any kind of source file.  It is in fact the
> canonical example of when you should stop using regexps.

Actually, I did use this pattern in production -- but only on XML that
I had generated myself.

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