(mystery: how
can filling in $ be a lot slower than filling in $1?)
It isn't. It's the same. $1 might even be more expensive than $.
It appears that many people don't understand the problem with $. I
will try to explain.
Maintaining the information required by $1 or $ slows down the
Jonathan Scott Duff wrote:
How about something like this?
$re = qr/(\d\d)-(\d\d)-(\d\d)/g;
$re-onmatch_callback(push @list, makedate(^0,^1,^2));
$string =~ $re;
It's not bad, but it loses one thing that I was trying to keep from the
SNOBOL model. If you have (again,
From: "Peter Heslin" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2000 10:51 PM
I would propose that your version of the syntax might also function in
the middle of a regexp: /GHI(?`=DEF)JKL(?`=^ABC)MNO/ would match the
start of the alphabet (fixed-length example used for simplicity).
That's
