On Jul 31, 8:40 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dharshana Eswaran) wrote: > And your suggestion worked. Thank you. But in the string which u had > suggested, [,\s*\/*]?, here \s* => tells spaces are optional,
No it doesn't. The "dirty dozen" characters lose their special meaning inside of a character class. > /\* tells the beginning of the comment, That's not what's in the pattern, and it wouldn't be correct even if it was. The characters are \/*, not /\*. The first is an escaped slash follwed by an asterisk, the second is a slash followed by an escaped asterisk. The slash is still special because it's the regexp delimiter, and so needs to be escaped. Your changing it is a syntax error. > I am unable to understand what these in a square > bracket along with a ? mean? The square brackets are a character class. Essentially, a list of options. [,\s*\/*]? means "0 or 1 of either a comma, a space, an asterisk, a slash, or an asterisk". Obviously, the two asterisks are redundant. You should freshen up on regular expressions: perldoc perlreref perldoc perlretut perldoc perlre Paul Lalli -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
