How do you put comments inside a Perl regular expression?
See Question&Answers more detail:osUse the /x modifier:
my $foo = "zombies are the bombies";
if ($foo =~ /
zombie # sorry pirates
/x ) {
print "urg. brains.
";
}
Also see the first question in perlfaq6.
Also it wouldn't hurt to read all of perlre while you're at it.