sharanbas raghapur wrote:
> Solutions from both Bill and Magnus work perfectly.
> I had some questions though in Bills solution ....
>
>
>>my ($str) = /print\s+"(.*)"/; # may suck an embedded "
>
>
> 1) For regex above, is the multiple word match due to .*
Yes - that will gobble up everything in sight until the last " it finds.
> 2) Is the main purpose of putting $str in brackets ia to get the matching
> value in brackets in right hand side of regex?
Yes - and we call those parens - these are brackets [] and braces {}. :)
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