This will match any line that begins with a semi-colon, is followed by any
character, then ot and finally 1 or more digits. The digits are saved in
the variable $1 and can be accessed later if desired. Of course, the
final ) seems superfluous.
At 01:14 PM 5/15/01 -0700, Liger-dc wrote:
>What does the following formatting do?
>
>$line =~ /^; .ot (\d+)/)
>
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