On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Stefan Lidman wrote: > > Note that you'll match on dudette and joeshmoe ... if you want an exact > > match, you could do: > > > > print "$_\n" if (/^joe|dude$/); > > I guess you ment: > > print "$_\n" if (/^(?:joe|dude)$/); > > Otherwise it matches if it begins with 'joe' or ends > with 'dude'.
Whoops, yes thanks for catching that! Note for regex newbies that the ?: means that the ( ) around joe|dude is unmarking; that is to say, the results will NOT be captured in $1, unlike /^(joe|dude)$/. In this case, we can do it either way, but we don't need to capture anything in the regex, hence the reason why Stefan put that in. Pete -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
