Howdy list, I am tryign to figure the best way to put a regex in a string:
my $regxp = '\w+(\.\d+)?\*\w+'; or my $regxp = qr(\w+(\.\d+)?\*\w+); if($foo !~ m/^$regxp$/) { die "you badly formatted thing you"; } Both ways seem to work the same it's just that qr changes $regxp to: (?-xism:\w+(\.\d+)?\*\w+) I'm not familiar with what that is doing? Is the 'i' saying case insensitive And the 'm' saying multiple lines/match, 'x' extended regular expressions and the 's' substitute/single line? Or ??? What are the advantages/disadvantages of either? Thanks! Dan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]