> I think ruby does, not sure what other languages. You're right that Ruby has it. Perl also has /x, of course (since most of Ruby regex was "inspired" directl

> I think ruby does, not sure what other languages. You're right that Ruby has it. Perl also has /x, of course (since most of Ruby regex was "inspired" directly by Perl's syntax), as well as Python (re.VERBOSE). Otherwise, yeah, it's disappointingly rare.