On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, Connie Chan wrote: > regex method : > $_ =~ s/^(.+)<\-(.+)$/$1/;
1) By default the regex engine tries to match the contents of $_, so your statement can be written as s/^(.+)<\-(.+)$/$1/; 2) You don't have to escape '-' in this case, it assumes a special meaning only when used inside a character class. 3) Avoid capturing when not needed, you could have written this as s/<-.+$//; -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
