But in this case it was also not needed as I replied without actually reading the requirements.
-----Original Message----- From: Paul Lalli [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 31 July 2007 14:21 To: beginners@perl.org Subject: Re: String Manipulation 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/ This e-mail is from the PA Group. For more information, see www.thepagroup.com. This e-mail may contain confidential information. Only the addressee is permitted to read, copy, distribute or otherwise use this email or any attachments. If you have received it in error, please contact the sender immediately. Any opinion expressed in this e-mail is personal to the sender and may not reflect the opinion of the PA Group. Any e-mail reply to this address may be subject to interception or monitoring for operational reasons or for lawful business practices. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
