On 1/3/06, Joe Van Dyk <joevandyk / gmail.com> wrote: > Another silly regex question. > > I have a regex that's getting to be more than 100 chars long. How can > I split it up on multiple lines? > You can put the 'x' option on the end of the regular expression. From the Pickaxe: ExtendedMode: Complex regular expressions can be difficult to read. The x option allows you to insert spaces, newlines, and comments in the pattern to make it more readable. e.g. %r{some regex with multiple lines }x