--- Liger-dc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What does the following formatting do?
> $line =~ /^; .ot (\d+)/)
^
Gives you a compile error.
Unmatched parens are bad. =o)
Otherwise, this line would attempt to match the contents of $line,
returning true if $line contained exactly "; " at it's beginning, then
any character, then "ot ", then one or more digits, which would be
stored in $1. If evaluated in a list context, the return value would be
the series of digits as stored in $1. In either case it would still be
true if found, or false if not, though in a scalar context the false
would be '' I think (maybe 0?), while in list context it would be an
empty list, equivalent to ().
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print "Just another Perl Hacker\n"; # edited for readability =o)
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