Hello Daniel,
Tuesday, May 3, 2005, 10:08:05 PM, you wrote:
Just of pure academic interest, let me to object on the issue.
DFS That's a different pattern than the one you originally posted. Since
DFS I now can see from your test case that you are using matches(), I can
DFS tell you the problem
I wrote:
The result will not be bar, it's bart. If you want foo|foot to match
foot you've either got to rewrite it as foot|foo or as ^(?:foo|foot)$.
For example,
echo foot | perl -pi -e 's/^(?:foo|foot)$/bar/g'
I should clarify that this is only if you want the entire input to
match. If you
