>>>>> "SHC" == Shawn H Corey <shawnhco...@gmail.com> writes:
SHC> my @data = qw( The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dogs. ); SHC> my $regx = qr{ [aeiou] }msx; SHC> my @matches = map { /($regx)/ } @data; SHC> print '@matches : ', Dumper \...@matches; not a major point, but why do you use dumper just to print a list of tokens? i use dumper for deeper stuff where i can't just print the data easily without some code. even single level hashes i will print directly as i can format it my way and not dumper's. you can do the same thing with print/map: print "matches:\n:, map "\t$_\n", @matches; and when i print strings that i am not sure have spaces in them (yours don't), i use [] to delimit: print "matches:\n:, map "\t[$_]\n", @matches; i generally don't print the sigils ($...@%) when printing vars since i know what i am printing and i don't need to escape or single quote them (yes, i know % doesn't need escaping). and i do a lot of debug printing. it is still the most effective debugging tool around. uri -- Uri Guttman ------ u...@stemsystems.com -------- http://www.sysarch.com -- ----- Perl Code Review , Architecture, Development, Training, Support ------ --------- Gourmet Hot Cocoa Mix ---- http://bestfriendscocoa.com --------- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/