Oh, so it goes through each and every character in the original string
passed. I thought it takes in the string as one entity and just captures
the first digit it can.
Does -p make it iterate over each character?
Martin Barth wrote:
> On Fri, 11 May 2007 17:50:41 -0400
> Steve Finkelstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> echo 500 | perl -ple 's|(\d)|length(9 x $1)|eg;'
>
> no you're wrong:
> s///g <- matches 5 first. length(9x5) == 5, thats true
>
> but now next digit! 0 -> length ( 9 x 0 ) == length("") == 0
> same again....
>
>
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