On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 08:37:07 +0100, manfred <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> That leads me to a question :-)
>
> >> if ($num =~ /^(\d+)\#([^\#]*?)\#(?:e\+(\d+))?$/x) {
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> What particular use has the _x_ modifier in this example?
> I mean the hashes are escaped?
I forgot to remove the /x when I stripped the comments from the regex
because if this was homework, I wanted the OP to work to understand it
;)
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