env(perl) Much improved regex detection #2960
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Resolves #2952.
Changes
Added many more common regex variants to
perl
.This does not attempt to solve:
Regex with entirely arbitrary characters are a pain because they
could potentialy match so many languages, and slow down auto-detect
so we will try to avoid them for now.
Checklist
CHANGES.md
AUTHORS.txt
, under Contributors