AUTHOR

    Larry Wall <larry@wall.org>


    Maintainer: Larry Wall <larry@wall.org>
    Date: 4 Jun 2002
    Last Modified: 18 May 2006
    Number: 5
    Version: 7

    This is the Apocalypse on Pattern Matching, generally having to do with what we call "regular expressions", which are only marginally related to real regular expressions. Nevertheless, the term has grown with the capabilities of our pattern matching engines, so I'm not going to try to fight linguistic necessity here. I will, however, generally call them "regexes" (or "regexen", when I'm in an Anglo-Saxon mood).