@@ -528,7 +528,7 @@ The regular expression to match the balanced text uses two new (to Perl 5.10) regular expression features. These are covered in L<perlre> and this example is a modified version of one in that documentation. -First, adding the new possesive C<+> to any quantifier finds the +First, adding the new possessive C<+> to any quantifier finds the longest match and does not backtrack. That's important since you want to handle any angle brackets through the recursion, not backtracking. The group C<< [^<>]++ >> finds one or more non-angle brackets without perlfaq6.pod 293f8f63211c5a6c7028eeb9513c7bacd5f0822e Alan Haggai Alavi alanhaggai@alanhaggai.org http://github.com/alanhaggai/perlfaq/commit/65d6a0d471abc158fe47a1be2fe34d1dfac903c8 65d6a0d471abc158fe47a1be2fe34d1dfac903c8 2009-11-07T03:11:40-08:00 2009-11-07T00:16:58-08:00 Corrected ( possesive -> possessive ) 3f4c2794d0477fead19a6ed332c906fd23bcc89a brian d foy brian.d.foy@gmail.com