Hi Jim, Jim Green wrote on 01/17/2010 05:25 PM: > my $name = "/usr/local/bin/perl"; > (my $basename = $name) =~ s#.*/##; # Oops! > > after substitution $basename is supposed to be > perl > > but why it is not /local/bin/perl? will .*/ matches longest possible string?
Yes it will match the longest possible string. To understand how this works (and how to avoid this behaviour if you don't want it) look into the concept of "greedy" regular expressions. For example here http://perldoc.perl.org/perlretut.html bye Alex -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
