On Sun, Jun 11, 2006 at 06:49:30PM +0200, Adriano Allora wrote:

> yes,
> specifying the end of the string it's necessasy, but, if I write:
> 
> #!/usr/bin/perl -w
> 
> print STDOUT "Leggo...\n";
> while (<>)
>       {
>       print "$_" if /^\w{1,5}$/;
>       }
> 
> the script doesn't match words (but THERE ARE words of 5 or 4 
> characters).
> I cannot undestand....

Neither can I.  It works for me.

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