>>>>> "LW" == Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

  LW> That seems like a lot of extra work.  I'd prefer to see something like:

  LW>     my stuff;

  LW>     m{^\s*[
  LW>           "$stuff:=(.*?)" |
  LW>            $stuff:=(\S+)
  LW>     ]};

couldn't that be reduced to:

    m{^\s* $stuff := [ "(.*?)" | (\S+) ] };

the | will only return one of the grabbed chunks and the result of the
[] group would be assigned to $stuff.

uri

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