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xeeeeeeeeeeenu on Oct 31, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: What piece of code/codebase blew your mind...

PPR - Pattern-based Perl Recognizer. It's basically a giant regex that matches Perl code.

The regex itself: https://metacpan.org/dist/PPR/source/lib/PPR.pm#L65

Documentation: https://metacpan.org/pod/PPR

jsrcout on Nov 1, 2022 [–]

That's one impressive Perl file. And so visually clean, especially considering what it does. I was wondering who would even make such a thing, then noticed the author - D. Conway. One of my programming heroes.

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