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Regular Expressions
One of Perl's original applications was text processing (see A Brief History of Perl). So far, we have seen easy manipulation of scalar and
list data is in Perl, but we have yet to explore the core of Perl's text
processing construct--regular expressions. To remedy that, this
chapter is devoted completely to regular expressions.
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