On Fri, 9 Aug 2002, Larry Wall wrote:
(Had an interesting typo there. I put = insteaqd of -. I wonder
how much trouble that sort of thing is gonna cause. Maybe pairs
can be disallowed or warned about where a pointy sub might be
expected.)
To add to the list of helpful warnings, I ran
Not know what a finite state machine was, I decided to poke around the
Net before replying to you. I found this definition:
...
at http://www.c3.lanl.gov/mega-math/gloss/pattern/dfa.html
This seems rather ambiguous, though, as it basically means that a FSM is
anything that you can
Ah! Ok, yes, I had missed that. Thanks, this is exactly what I wanted.
Dave
On Mon, 5 Aug 2002, Stephen Rawls wrote:
Doesn't the :w option do that?
:w/one two/ translates to /one \s+ two/
Not exactly. The regex you showed would match any of these (using
underscores for
spaces