Hi, I just hit something that I hadn't noticed before and I am not sure it's it's a syntax issue or I have not been doing my reading.
I am trying to create a regex to match a directory name in path string my $dir = dirname(shift); (my $code) = ($dir =~ m|track.(\w{3}).|); return $code; I thought I'd use | as a delimiter rather than the more conventional / . The regex without the 'm' gives an error: syntax error at script/import.pl line ..., near "=~ |" So this appears to be incorrect: $dir =~ |track.(\w{3}).| Is that right? Also when you are using other delimiters, like |, do I no longer have to stop escaping my slash charaters / but now need to escape my new delimiting character EG |? Thanx, Dp. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/