Tom Phoenix wrote:
> On 8/5/06, Peter Daum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> $s =~ /^(.*[^\\])(\\)?$/; print "1: '$1', 2: '$2'";
>
> Let's see what that pattern matches by annotating it:
>
> m{
> ^ # start of string
> ( # memory 1
> .* # any ol' junk, including backslashes
> [^\\] # any non-backslash, including newlines
... aaaaaaaah ;-)
I somehow had always assumed, that not only "."
but also other constructs (like the [^\\] which really
was intended as [^\\\n]) treat the newline special and
only "\n" or "$" match the newline - certainly not
something the Perl documentation says anywhere,
but this was the first time I ever had a situation
where this makes a difference.
Thanks a lot for the explanation!
Regards,
Peter Daum
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