On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 5:45 PM, Durairaj Muthusamy <tech.du...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am a newbie and need your help. The following script doesn't
> display the first print statement like the second one.
> Why?
>
> @str = qw(NEW food foosball newstr foobasefoot);
>
> $\ = "\n";
>
> foreach(@str)
> {
> print "First: $&" if ?(foo.*)?;
> print "Second: $&" if /(foo.*)/;
> }
>
> Output:
>
> First: food
> Second: food
> Second: foosball
> Second: foobasefoot
>
>
> Regards,
> Durai
>
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> Hi,
I didn't understand your question! Are you asking that why first print only
shows one match "food" unlike second one which shows all matches
matched by"foo.*"
If that is the question then the m?? unlike m// only matches once.
Those ?? are special delimiters specially created for this purpose i.e
single match only.
