On Jun 23, 4:18 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mathew Snyder) wrote: > You'll notice in the section that creates the filehandle I have a statement > that > says "next if $address =~ m/^#/gmx;". I had to escape the "#". Can anyone > tell > me why that is? It isn't a special character for regexes that I've ever seen > used.
You need to read perldoc perlre It's special because for some reason you chose to use the /x modifier. This modifier allows you to use both whitespace and comments inside your regular expressions. Since you obviously don't know what the /x modifier does, why are you using it? Blindly typing code that you don't understand is a really bad way to program. Paul Lalli P.S. (Yes, I know PBP recommends always using /mxs, but anyone who uses /msx on every regexp because PBP recommends it should at least read enough of PBP to know *why* its recommended) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
