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Author mrabarnett
Recipients ezio.melotti, mrabarnett, pitrou, serhiy.storchaka, sjmachin
Date 2012-12-03.00:10:46
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The question is whether re should always treat 'b{1, 3}a' as a literal, even with the VERBOSE flag.

I've checked with Perl 5.14.2, and it agrees with re: adding a space _always_ makes it a literal, even with the 'x' flag (/b{1, 3}a/x is treated as /b\{1,3}a/).
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