Mr. Shawn H. Corey wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-09-05 at 01:30 -0700, John W. Krahn wrote:
>>Anything used as a pattern is a string. See the "Quote and Quote-like
>>Operators" section of perlop:
>
> Huh?
>
> Do you mean all strings can be used as a pattern?
A pattern is a string. Perl does string interpolation on patterns before
passing them on to the regular expression engine.
> split( quotemeta( $split_string ), $data_string );
Which could also be written as:
split( "\Q$split_string", $data_string );
Or:
split( /\Q$split_string/, $data_string );
> Or that patterns are built from strings?
>
> split( /$split_string/, $data_string );
>
>
> What I meant was that:
>
> split( $split_string, $data_string );
>
> works like the second one, which can surprise you since you would expect
> it to work like the first.
I don't understand what you are trying to say.
John
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