"Dharshana Eswaran" schreef:
> m/^ #TAPI (?:_[A-Z]+)+ $/x
>
> But this is filtering both the strings starting from TAPI and the
> strings starting from #TAPI.
Yes, "#" starts a comment, so makes the regex equivalent to m/^/, which
will allways match.
echo 'abc' |
perl -nle '
/^ # test/x and print 1
'
Either an escaping backslash, or surrounding "[]", will change that:
echo '#test' |
perl -nle '
/^ [#] test/x and print 1
'
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