Regular Expressions in Perl for the Novice – Part 6 Introduction This is the sixth part of my series, Regular Expressions in Perl for the Novice. Many of the examples we have come across are simple examples. In this section we look at two examples that are more demanding. Before we leave this part of the series, we talk about what is called Backtracking, and then we look again at the x modifier. Steps required to build a Regex These are the steps required to build a regex: - Specify the task in... Sign in to see full entry.