Backtracking control -- tokens
"182745909809283949 minus 4" ~~ / \d+: ' plus ' \d+: /
For modern one-pass languages, non-backtracking regexes are very common
The keyword "token" indicates a regex that does no backtracking by default
"182745909809283949 minus 4" ~~ token { \d+ ' plus ' \d+ }continued...