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From: rbj@uunet.UU.NET (Root Boy Jim)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: ptags - perl tags in perl
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Date: 15 Apr 91 21:38:01 GMT
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In article <oebG+9jo1@cs.psu.edu> flee@cs.psu.edu (Felix Lee) writes:
>I almost have a stand-alone scanner for Perl: feed it a Perl program
>and it will output a stream of tokens, one per line.  Would anyone
>find this useful?  If so, I'll finish rewriting it.

Hmmmm, what's a token? How do you parse: $foo =~ s/$bar/tr;a-z;A-Z;/e
How do you deal with: &qaz(<<foo,<<bar)
What about q (or $) followed by newline or tab?
Have fun!
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