Oh well!
its a quite intersting using /g
I am sure all the beginners will love these neat way of coding.:-)
Thanks
Rajeev Rumale
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Sally" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "perl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, June 25, 2001 7:33 PM
Subject: Re: /g
> On Jun 25, Sally said:
>
> >when evaluating strings what exactly does /g do at the end of a lot of
> >evaluation expressions eg:
> >
> >$string =~ /(.)/g
>
> The /g modifier is for regexes only (not strings in general). It is
> documented in 'perlre' and probably 'perlop' as well.
>
> It tells Perl that the regex is to match, and then REMEMBER WHERE THE
> MATCH ENDED, so that it can start there the next time /.../g is used.
>
> The most common uses of it are:
>
> # all at once...
> @all_matches = $string =~ /(pattern)/g;
>
> and
>
> # one at a time
> while ($string =~ /(pattern)/g) {
> # ...
> }
>
> --
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